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A wild-cat skull trimmed with red dyed deer hair, and attached to buckskin tube

Natural History Museum

Object Details

Scope and Contents

Length about 30 inches. Speck says is pouch folded over belt, leaving skull hanging down. War clubs accompanying these specimens are designated as Mohawk, and are catalogued under Mohawk Negative Numbers 962-h-1-2.
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref8795

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b8bc8e8d-65c2-4a27-b176-8f53a1c3df6c

Local Numbers

OPPS NEG.819 E 3

Local Note

Extract from letter dated January 15, 1948, from Frederic H. Douglas, Curator of Native Art, Denver Art Museum, addressed to William H. Fenton, Bureau of American Ethnology: "The identification on the photographs are those on the 1676 inventory. Modern Swedes have no other source of information than this list and could tell me nothing about the collector or the place of collection. I have absolutely no personal ideas about these pieces and am delighted to add your comments to my store of information. "I have no plans for publication. The matter was not discussed with the Swedes and I am not qualified anyhow. If you or some other expert in this field wants to publish I am sure that you could get permission from the Swedes. Dr Torsten Lenk, Livrustkammaren, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, is the man who seems to be in charge of the specimens."
Photographs of these specimens were sent by Mr Douglas to Dr Fenton for making photographic negatives and file prints, and the original photographs returned to Mr Douglas.
Black and white copy negative

Topic

Lenape
Indians of North America -- Northeast

Culture

Lenape (Delaware)

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Biographical / Historical

Appear first on inventory of 1676.

Extent

1 Photograph (8x10 in)

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials
Photographs

Genre/Form

Photographs

Existence and Location of Originals

Specimens are in their original chest in the armory of Skokloster castle near Stockholm, Sweden.

Restrictions

Permission to publish must be obtained from the Ethnological Museum at Stockholm. Address: Dr Torsten Lenk, Livrustkamaren, Nordiska Musset, Stockholm.
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref8795
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Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670656-0

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