Bracelets Of Bead Work
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A PAIR OF BEADED, FINGER-WOVEN GARTERS HAS BEEN FOUND WITH THE CAT. 5433. THEY MAY BE THE MISSING "BRACELETS", AND HAVE BEEN TAGGED AS SUCH. L. EISENHART 1986. POSSIBLY THIS SPECIMEN, OR CATALOG NO. 5,431, IS THE FOLLOWING ITEM CATALOGED IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOG OF JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM (IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES) AS FOLLOWS: "I PR. ORNAMENTED GARTERS." RECEIVED SOME ST. LOUIS BY THE S.S. PRAIRIE, WHILE VARDEN WAS IN NEW ORLEANS, MAY, 1839. RECEIVED BY V. FROM JAMES B. AGER."
label: Notes
content: E5430 may not be the correct number for the garters currently called this number? Ledger book indicates this object was exchanged with the Trocadero Museum, July 1885. See Cat. 5 p. 162 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is for a pair of beaded garters, Musee du Quai Branly catalog no. 71.1885.78.291.1-2, which their records identify as former Smithsonian no. 5430.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E5430-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Garter