Medicine Man's Rattle "She-Sheequoi" 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: ACCESSION FILE FOR E6326-361 NOTES ONLY THAT OBJECTS WERE SENT FROM FORT STEVENSON IN 1868. THE COLLECTORS, DRS. GRAY & MATHEWS, WERE POSTED TO THIS FORT IN 1867-68, BUT PRIOR TO THAT, DR. MATHEWS HAD SERVED AT FORT BERTHOLD AS WELL AS AT FORT UNION. NEAR THERE, AT FORT BUFORD, DR. GRAY HAD BEEN POSTED IN 1867, AND IN 1866 SERVED AT FORT RANDALL (NOW SOUTH DAKOTA). PRECISE PROVENIENCE IS THEREFORE UNCERTAIN FOR THESE OBJECTS; "FORT BERTHOLD," "FORT STEVENSON," "UPPER MISSOURI RIVER," OR SIMPLY "DAKOTA TERRITORY" INCONSISTENTLY APPEAR IN THE CARD CATALOG LISTINGS FOR THIS SERIES. (CFS/1995).
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "RAW HIDE STRETCHED OVER A SMALL HOOP, GATHERED AT THE BACK FROM WHICH SECTIONS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO MAKE THE BACK FLAT. A PORTION IS BOUND AROUND A SMALL STICK, FOR A HANDLE AND SEWED. CATLIN, IN HIS MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, VOL. 1, P. 109 SPEAKS OF RECEIVING A SHE-SHEE-QUOI. A DOCTOR'S RATTLE. THE ABOVE IS ONE OF SUCH RATTLES, THE OTHER HAD THE FORM OF A GOURD WITH A WOODEN HANDLE MADE OF DRIED SKIN. IT WAS CALLED EEH-NA-DEE. ORIGINAL LABEL READS: 'DISCOID MEDICINE RATTLES OBTAINED FROM MANDANS AT FORT BERTHOLD. DRS. GRAY AND MATHEWS'".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Berthold, Mclean County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001281
label: USNM Number
content: E6330-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle