Beads

Object Details

Collector

Capt. Charles F. Hall

FROM CARD: "TRADED FROM PARRY'S EXP. OF 1821-3. THE 6 RED AND THE 8 WHITE BEADS ARE THE ONES WHICH SUPPOSEDLY CAME FROM THE WM. PARRY EXP. 1821-23. THESE BEADS WERE GIVEN TO HALL BY KOU-LOU, THE ELDER SISTER OF KI-A, WHO HAD KNOWN THE WHITE MEN ON THE MELVILLE PENINSULA IN 1857. THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN TO KI-A BY THE OLD WIFE OF PA-PA WHOM HALL HAD LEFT AT THEIR WINTER QUARTERS (PROBABLY ON HIS PREVIOUS EXPEDITION IN 1861). INVENTORIED 1974. KOU-LOU SAID THAT THE BLUE BEAD ON THIS STRING HAD COME FROM AN OLD WOMAN TO WHOM HALL HAD GIVEN BEADS ON HIS ? 1861 EXPEDITION. (THESE NOTES ARE FROM AN ORIGINAL PAPER WITH HALL'S SIGNATURE WHICH HAD BEEN WITH THE BEADS AT ONE TIME.)

Record Last Modified

9 Feb 2016

Specimen Count

1

Culture

Eskimo

Accession Date

10 Mar 1871

Collection Date

1821 to 1823

Accession Number

002043

USNM Number

E10428-0

Object Type

Bead

Place

Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

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Anthropology

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Ethnology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8327772

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35efb72a5-6989-4a74-95b8-7d2fd9b8b73d