Knife Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOAN: DENVER MUSEUM 3/15/65. RETURNED 10/6/65. NOTE: VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM CATALOG (ORIGINAL IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES) LISTS TWO KNIFE SHEATHS AS FOLLOWS: "AN INDIAN KNIFE SCABBARD FROM THE ROCKEY MOUNTAINS" OBTAINED BY JOHN VARDEN FROM DAVID POORTER, WHILE VARDEN WAS IN NEW ORLEANS, MARCH, 1830. "INDIAN KNIFE SCABBARD OF CANADAY", OBTAINED BY JOHN VARDEN FROM S.S. SPENCE, WHILE VARDEN WAS IN ST. LOUIS, NOV. 1838. IT IS PROBABLE THAT THESE KNIFE SCABBARDS ARE PRESENT CATALOG NUMBERS 5,417 AND 5,420. HOWEVER, DETERMINATION OF WHICH ONE IS THE 1830 AND WHICH THE 1838 SPECIMEN HAS NOT YET BEEN MADE-J.C. EWERS (OCT.1951)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5420-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife Sheath