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date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: George Tsaroff
label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SPLIT. BLUE IS ONLY COLOR USED. IN SHAPE OF A WALL POCKET."
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file indicates Rau acquired E178935 and E178936 "... from Indians of Walpole Island (Canadian) in Lake St. Clair", acquired via George Tsaroff (who died May 8, 1880.) George Tsaroff (ca. 1858 - 1880), was an Aleut orphan adopted by naturalist William Healey Dall, educated at University of Michigan, and employed by the Smithsonian Institution as an exhibit assistant and guide from 1878 until his untimely death from tuberculosis in 1880. See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 001, Image Nos. MAH-1234 and MAH-1235.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lake St. Clair / Walpole Island, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Ottawa (Odawa, Nishnaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Potawatomi (Bodewadmi, Neshnabé) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178936-0
objectType: label: Object Type
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