Calendar-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLLECTED IN 1902. POLE FLATTENED ON TWO SIDES ON WHICH ARE CUTS AND SYMBOLS. ... ILLUSTRATED IN: A) HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, VOL. 10, P. 157, FIG. 8; AND B) BAE 26TH ANNUAL REPORT, P. 105. RUSSELL'S DESCRIPTION (IBID): "THE BLACKWATER STICK IS OF SAGUARO WOOD SMOOTHED AND CARVED FOR THE WRITER BY THE KEEPER OF THE RECORD, WHO LOST THE ORIGINAL SOME YEARS AGO AND WHO HAS SINCE BEEN USING PAPER AND PENCIL, BUT THE SAME SYMBOLS." FROM HANDWRITTEN LIST OF SPECIMENS IN ACCESSION RECORD: "JUAN THOMAS CALENDAR STICK."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Blackwater, Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039990
label: USNM Number
content: E218135-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Calendar