Dog Soldier's Set: Whistle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARDS: "CONSISTING OF LEGGINGS OF COTTON CLOTH PAINTED RED; NECKLACE AND WRISTLETS OF PORCUPINE QUILL WORK; EAGLE BONE WHISTLE, AND RATTLE OF DEER HOOFS. WHISTLE (IS MADE) OF GOLDEN EAGLE LEG BONE - WETMORE. RATTLE "SHI SHI", L. 13 1/4 IN. W. 2 1/2 IN. T. 3/4 IN., WOOD HANDLE, COVERED WITH RED BUCKSKIN WITH BANDS OF QUILLWORK; RATTLES OF DEW CLAWS SUSPENDED ON ONE EDGE." LEGGINGS ARE MADE FROM FLOUR BAG. STAMPED ON CLOTH INSIDE ONE LEGGING IS: "U.S. INDIAN DEPARTMENT 100 LBS. FLOUR 1879 WELLS & NIEMAN, SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA BEMIS BRO. & CO., BAGS, ST. LOUIS, MO."
label: Notes
content: This has been identified an outfit of the men's society, the Dog Lodge, by reference to A. Kroeber, The Arapaho, AMNH Bulletin, 1904.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Wyoming, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei), Northern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026286
label: USNM Number
content: E165131-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Whistle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33.66 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.3 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 1.91 cm