Wampum String
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jun 1952
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. J. N. Hewitt
label: Collector
content: Dr. William N. Fenton
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Wampum mace with this catalogue number deaccessioned for repatriation as an item of cultural patrimony to representatives of the Onondaga Nation, 4 May 1997. One circular string of purple wampum with this number is still in the collections. A piece of paper that accompanied the string of purple wampum, on letterhead from the Hotel Belmont, Brantford Canada, indicates it is part of number 391948 and says "Short String. Black. Death notification? of the late chief. Wampum from the miniature sets transferred from B. of [A.] E."
label: Notes
content: Note re photos: Neg. #s MNH447A, 93-2050, 93-2051, and 95-20415 are images of the wampum mace that was repatriated to the Onondaga Nation in 1997.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Brant County, Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 192830
label: USNM Number
content: E391948-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wampum
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Wampum
content: 104 cm