Dance Hoop with human hair and horsehair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Feb 1937
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. George K. Sanderson
label: Donor Name
content: Wittenberg College
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Fringed with tufts of human hair and a small scalp lock and turkey feathers."
label: Notes
content: Results of 2013 analysis of two samples of hair from this identifies origin of one sample as "European" ancestry and the other as non-human, horse hair.
label: Notes
content: Dr. JoAllyn Archambault, Standing Rock Sioux, NMNH Department of Anthropology, identified as a dance hoop.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 137634
label: USNM Number
content: E378353-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Hoop