Dunning Sticks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUSTRATED: HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 6, P. 393. "WOOD WHITTLED AND PAINTED WITH RED AND BLACK PIGMENT, TIED WITH MILKWEED FIBER STRING..."." Identified further in Handbook caption: "These were tossed into a debtor's house by the creditor, as a reminder that the debt should soon be paid. Average length of sticks 9.5 cm".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Placer County / Bear River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nisenan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E21454-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dunning Stick