Sacred Buffalo Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1956
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. John M. Cooper
label: Donor Name
content: Catholic University Of America
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SECTION OF AN AMMONOID, A TYPE OF FOSSIL CEPHALOPOID, WHICH THE NATIVES CONCEIVED OF AS LOOKING LIKE A BUFFALO AND, THEREFORE, AS HAVING GREAT SUPERNATURAL POWER, TO BE PRESERVED BY HANDLING AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AND NEVER WANTING TO GIVE THESE OBJECTS UP. WRAPPED IN A SMALL PIECE OF BUCKSKIN." AS OF 1999 STONE FOUND TO BE NO LONGER PRESENT. - F. PICKERING
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 211312
label: USNM Number
content: E395609-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Object