Bird Skin Robes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Feb 1895
label: Collection Date
content: 1894 to 1895
name: label: Collector
content: William J. McGee
label: Collector
content: William Dinwiddie
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "174,555 & 556 NOT LOCATED IN STORAGE. 4/21/75-PERHAPS BOTH EXCHANGED WITH HEYE FOUNDATION? JRR. NO.174,555-2 SPECIMENS EXCHANGED WITH HEYE MUSEUM, NEW YORK CITY, JAN. 4, 1921, FOR ACC. 65,896." FROM CARD: "174,554A. COLLECTIONS OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. BIRDSKIN BLANKETS.-MADE FROM 6 SKINS OF THE CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICAN (PELICANUS CALIFORNICUS), YOUNG BIRDS. THE ENTIRE BREAST AND PORTIONS OF THE WING FEATHERS ARE USED. THE SKINS ARE SEWED TOGETHER WITH SINEW. SERI INDIANS, TIBURON ISLAND, SONORA, MEXICO. 174,554. COLLECTED BY W J MCGEE AND WM. DINWIDDIE. THE SMALL BIRDSKIN BLANKET FORMS A COMPLETE DRESS, AND IS WORN ABOUT THE MIDDLE, REACHING FROM THE WAIST. WHERE IT IS SECURED BY A GIRDLE, TO BELOW THE KNEES."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tiburon Island, Sonora, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seri (Comcaac)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029025
label: USNM Number
content: E174554-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket