War-Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to Sep 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Rudolph B. Hitz
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: RUDOLPH B. HITZ BEGAN HIS CAREER AS AN ACTING ASST. (CONTRACT) SURGEON IN 1864. HE WAS SENT TO MONTANA TERRITORY IN 1867 AND SERVED THERE UNTIL JUNE 1869. HITZ SENT HIS GIFT TO THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM IN SEPT. 1868 FROM CAMP REEVE (MOUTH OF THE MUSSELSHELL RIVER), MONTANA TERRITORY. ACCORDING TO A LETTER FROM HITZ TO MAJ. GENERAL J.K. BARNES (SURGEON GENERAL), 9/3/1868, THIS IS "AN INDIAN WAR CLUB, MADE AND USED BY THE CROW INDIANS" (ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM MICROFILM RECORD FOR ANATOMICAL SPECIMENS NOS. 128-129, NAA). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997. THIS CLUB WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGED AS TRIBE AND LOCALITY UNKNOWN. IT HAS NOW BEEN LISTED AS CROW, MONTANA BASED ON GRAFE'S INFORMATION. - CHANGES MADE PER C. GREENE 2/27/1998 SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Crow (Apsaalooke)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8515-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club