Old Gun With Flintlock
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. James M. Bell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TURNED IN BY SITTING BULL WHEN HE SURRENDERED." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: Anthropology Conservation Lab records identify as a Barnett flintlock trade gun, and note that stamped on the lock plate it says: "Barnett London 1876."
label: Notes
content: Reference: pp. 175-181, "When Sitting Bull Surrendered His Winchester", Chapter 14 in Ewers, John C. 1968. Indian life on the Upper Missouri. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. P. 179 in this publication particularly talks about this gun, and notes that Ewers doubts the attribution to Sitting Bull.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota)
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Hunkpapa Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028804
label: USNM Number
content: EL79-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gun