Medicine Arrows 1 Pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Mar 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. A. S. Gatschet
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO JOALLYN ARCHAMBAULT, DIRECTOR, NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PROGRAM, AND SALLY MCLENDON, VISITING ANTHROPOLOGIST, "THESE TWO RED PAINTED 'MEDICINE' ARROWS WERE ACCESSIONED TOGETHER WITH 7 OTHER OBJECTS, 6 OF WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY IDENTIFIED AS 'PONCA, SIOUX', WITH DITTO MARKS (IN THE LEDGER) FOR ALL OBJECTS AFTER THE FIRST. THE DITTO MARKS FOR 166544 WERE THEN OVER-WRITTEN WITH 'KLAMATH, CAL.' GATSCHET'S B.A.E. MS. 610 IN THE NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES INCLUDES A PRICE LIST LABELED 'MODOC IMPLEMENTS' WHICH LISTS AS 1) & 2) 'HANASISH, PAIR, PAINT IN RED'. GATSCHET'S KLAMATH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (1890:61) GIVES HANASISHAS 'LONG ARROW USED BY CONJURERS AS A MAGIC TOOL FOR CURING THE SICK'. (MODOC AND KLAMATH ARE DIALECTS OF A SINGLE LANGUAGE REFERRED TO BY GATSCHET AS 'KLAMATH'.) IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THESE 2 ARROWS WERE MADE BY MODOCS DEPORTED TO INDIAN TERRITORY AFTER THE MODOC WAR." (APPROVED BY W. STURTEVANT, NOV. 8, 1994)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, California / Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Modoc
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026843
label: USNM Number
content: E166544-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Arrow