Ball & Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Dec 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Ball flat. Quill pouches. Voth Collection. Illus. in BAE 24th AR, fig. 793, p. 619 (ball). Original tag reads: "No. 127. Chey. (obtained from) Mrs. Big Man. Porcupine quill receptacles. To put away the porcupine quills that were formerly used by the Chey & Arap for ornamental purposes, Coll. 1891. H.R.V.""
label: Notes
content: As the catalogue card notes, the ball was illus. (both sides) in Fig. 793, p. 619 of B.A.E. 24th Annual Report, "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin. It is described on pp. 619 of that publication and identified as a shinny ball: "Hide ball, disk-shaped, with two hide faces sewed to a strip at the edge, painted brown, with a design of a turkey drawn on one side and on the opposite side a deer, with hills and pine trees; diameter, 4 inches; thickness, 2 inches." Though the original cataloguing indicates there should also be two pouches with this catalogue number, only one remains in 2007. The pouch is a bladder? or intestine? bag for storing porcupine quills. One undyed quill is still inside the bag. The H.R. Voth tag quoted on the catalogue card remains with the pouch. See E166031, which may be a related object (to the quill storage pouch).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Cheyenne And Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026674
label: USNM Number
content: E166027-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ball / Bag / Porcupine Quill