String Of Wampum
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Mar 1962
name: label: Donor Name
content: John White
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Single string of long purple shell beads now wrapped in chamois. Donor states wampum was given him by his great aunt, Sally Hicks who was born in the Sequachee valley, Tennessee, of the Chickamauga band of Cherokee which had then been scattered for many years. She called them 'grandfather beads.' This string was originally one of four similar strings tied together at one end."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Sep 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Sequatchie Valley (not certain), Tennessee (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 240799
label: USNM Number
content: E399797-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum