Saddlebags
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Mar 1872
label: Collection Date
content: 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Vincent Colyer
label: Donor Name
content: Vincent Colyer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FROM "LITTLE RAVEN" CHIEF OF THE ARRAPAHOES. ... DECORATED WITH RED CLOTH, AND PONY AND SEED BEADS."
label: Notes
content: From p. 367 of Hardorff, Richard G. 2006. Washita memories: eyewitness views of Custer's attack on Black Kettle's village. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press: "In 1869 Vincent Colyer, U.S. special Indian commissioner, visited the West to obtain by personal observation and inspection the condition of the Indian tribes in several western territories. As a member of the Indian commission, he served without salary, while his escort and transportation were provided for by special order of President Grant. Colyer … arrived at the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory [later Oklahoma], on March 29, 1869. On April 9 Colyer held an interview with Little Raven, chief of the Arapahos. … Colyer's full report is included in the Annual Report of the Secretary of Interior for 1869, 41st Congress, 2nd session [see especially pp. 41-42]."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indian Territory (Oklahoma), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei), Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002332
label: USNM Number
content: E11076-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle Bag