Caribou Hunting Charm
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: "Gift of son-in-law of Harriet Whiskeychan, 1934. This bezoar is a round flat disk of fibrous material, taken from a caribou's neck, decorated with loops of faceted red beads around the perphery, and kept as hunting medicine. (A bezoar is a fibrous or calcareous growth occuring occasionally in numerous forms, in various parts of some animals.)"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: James Bay, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Montagnais, Rupert House
label: Culture
content: Cree, Rupert House (Waskaganish)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 211312
label: USNM Number
content: E395309-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Charm