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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.)"
Accession record notes that items in this collection were "found in ancient Huron Indian Graves"
Accession record notes that items in this collection were "found in ancient Huron Indian Graves"
SINGLE STRAND NECKLACE OF MULTI-COLORED DRIED INDIAN CORN KERNELS AND PORCUPINE QUILLS STRUNG ON BROWN COTTON THREAD KNOTTED TOGETHER AT ENDS. PATTERN IS FIVE KERNELS, TWO QUILLS FORMING AN X, REPEAT. PURCHASED IN 1983 FROM IROQRAFTS, OHSWEKEN, SIX NATIONS RESERVE, ONTARIO, CANADA BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBIT.
From card: "Gift of Ethel Stevens, 1934. Scapula of a "Virginia deer." Hung on a tree to honor the deer. No working."