Textile Belt Or Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LOGBOOK: BELT OF PROTEIN TEXTILE
label: Notes
content: This was probably used in the old Tehuelche mannequin group, "Family Group of the Tehuelche Indians". Various versions of this group were on display for a number of years, including finally in NMNH Exhibit Hall 11, Case 53, and the majority, if not all of the artifacts on the mannequins came from the John Bell Hatcher collections. You can see a photo of one version online: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 12-492, Image No. SIA2012-2807, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_367782 . It is possibly a woven textile strap that was used in the exhibit as a "lead"/line for the taxidermied rhea (large bird) in the case. Second shorter piece might have been used as a headband on a mannequin? See exhibit photo linked above. See also Neg. # 43595H, print filed in Hall 11 exhibit book, case 53. Also could be exhibit props?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Patagonia (not certain), Argentina (not certain), South America (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET12428-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt