Pipe & Tobacco Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1908
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The lower 9" carries a beadwork panel. The background is white. On one side the principal design element is a diamond with opposed right angle triangles at the outer edges; on the other side are four triangles paired and meeting at the apex. To the bottom is attached buckskin thongs wrapped in porcupine quills 4 3/4" long and to this is a buckskin fringe approximately 9 1/2" in length. Information with the pouch says: "The pouch was made of elk skin and was used for a Kinnikinnic. Um-pha-han-to-zu-ha "Elk Skin Pouch Bag.""
label: Notes
content: The "information" with the bag that the catalogue card references is a handwritten note in the hand of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, which also identifies the bag as Oglala. It is likely the bag was formerly in the Smithsonian collections. The Hrdlicka note with the bag is very similar to notes with other Smithsonian Hrdlicka pieces; see for example the one with E251940 (and the notes with other objects in Accession No. 49017, collected in 1908). If the bag was formerly part of the Smithsonian collections, it is possible that it was formerly part of E251984 (there is still a pipe stem under that number). The pipe bag from that number went to E.W. Keyser, Washington, D.C. in 1912. Victor Evans (also in Washington, D.C.) could have subsequently acquired the bag from Keyser. E251984, along with the other "Sioux" artifacts from Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, was collected by him at the Pine Ridge Reservation during his Summer 1908 work among the Oglala Lakota for the International Congress on Tuberculosis.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Pine Ridge Reservation (not certain) / Shannon County (not certain), South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Oglala Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357648-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe Bag