Object Details
- Donor Name
- Mr. David I. Bushnell Jr.
- From card: "Indian tanned goatskin, very white and rather soft. See Bull. B.A.E. [#48]" Reference: Bushnell, David I. 1909. The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 48.) The process of Choctaw hide tanning is described (p. 11-12) and illustrated (Pl. 11 and 12 after p. 55) in this publication.
- Albert Naquin, Traditional Chief; Boyo Billiot, Deputy Chief; Chantel Comardelle, Tribal Secretary; and Heather Stone, collaborator; made the following comments during the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, October 23-27, 2017. Heather notes that the hide is almost uniform in color. Albert posits that it may have been bleached.
- Record Last Modified
- 27 Feb 2022
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Choctaw
- Accession Date
- 21 Nov 1917
- Accession Number
- 061814
- USNM Number
- E300891-0
- Object Type
- Hide
- Place
- Not Given, Bayou Lacombe / Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8387059
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/386ae3b21-bd1a-46d8-a1b4-1277c2dc208f
