Box Turtle Shell Rattle
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Rattle made from shell of box turtle (Terrapene carolina); max. dimension 5 1/4"; black shoestring threaded through the holes for attachment, a few pebbles for rattling pellets; compare description & illus. in Speck, Primitive Man 12:2, 21-57 (1939) Type long obsolete. Ordered in July, 1957, in person from S.T. Blue, received by mail Aug. 21. Catawba"
label: Notes
content: S. T. Blue is Samuel Taylor Blue.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Catawba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437557-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle