Feather And Tablet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Aug 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Peter Jones
label: Collector
content: Dr. Peter E. Jones
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "EAGLE PLUME SET IN A BONE TUBE WHICH IS TIED TO A STONE TABLET. SEE MCGEE AM. ANTHROP., JUNE 1898, P. 177-80 FOR HISTORY." THIS FEATHER IS APPARENTLY THE ONE GIVEN TO REV. PETER JONES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS NAMING CEREMONY, C. 1802 (SEE W.J. MCGEE, "OJIBWA FEATHER SYMBOLISM," AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 11 (JUNE 1898): 178-179; REV. JONES' LIFE AND JOURNALS, P. 2; SACRED FEATHERS, BY DONALD B. SMITH, P. 7). ACCORDING TO MCGEE, THE PLUME WAS AT THE TIME OF ACCESSION "PRESERVED IN A CARVED WOODEN CASE MADE FOR THE PURPOSE." THE CURRENT WHEREABOUTS OF THIS BOX IS UNKNOWN. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE "REMARKS" FOR 178396 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BOX. SEE ACCESSION HISTORY AND PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe), Mississauga
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033939
label: USNM Number
content: E178395-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Feather