Playing Cards 32
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. George V. Allen
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hand painted (?) on animal skin, mostly in red and blue. Painting more elaborate than usual. Of the 40 cards that belong in this pack, the following 32 are present: Swords 1-7, soto (jack) and rey (king); clubs; 2-4; 6-7, soto rey: cups, 1-6, soto, rey and cabellero; coins, 3-7, soto cabellero. Though alleged to be of human skin, there is no evidence that such is the case. 5-8-1986 - 2 cards lent to NMNH Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology for identification of animal skin. 7-2-1986 returned. Skin identified by D. Deedrick, Microscopic Analysis Unit, Branch of Hair and Fibers, FBI; as Rocky Mountain Goat." This object is illustrated and described on p. 116 of Wayland, Virginia, Harold Wayland, and Alan Ferg. 2006; Playing cards of the Apaches: a study in cultural adaptation; Tucson, Ariz: Screenfold Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 32
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 280079
label: USNM Number
content: E408261-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Card