Indian War Hickory
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Alfred Muller
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE BY PRISONER AT FT. RIDGELY. (THIS FORT IN NICOLLET COUNTY, MINNESOTA, 1853-67.) AN INDIAN WAR BOW OF THE YANKTON OR THE SISSETON, UPPER SIOUX. IT IS THREE AND A HALF FEET IN LENGTH AND POSSESSES A DOUBLE CURVE. IT IS STAINED RED AND IS WRAPPED WITH RED WORSTED NEAR THE MIDDLE, AND EACH END IS ORNAMENTED WITH BLUE RIBBON. IT IS BOUND NEAR ONE EXTREMITY WHERE IT HAS BEEN SPLIT, WITH SOME TENDINOUS MATERIAL. MADE BY AN INDIAN PRISONER AT FT. RIDGELY (MINNESOTA). CONTRIBUTED BY ASST. SURGEON ALF. MULLER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Ridgely, Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Dakota
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Sisseton (Sisitonwan) Dakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8302-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca 107 cm