Caribou Hunting Charm Item Number: E395309-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
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.)"
Item History
- Made in Quebec, Canada
- Collected by Rev. John M. Cooper in Quebec, Canada
- Received from Catholic University Of America on July 6, 1956
What
- Name
- Caribou Hunting Charm
- Identification Number
- E395309-0
- Type of Item
- charm
Who
- Culture
- Montagnais, Rupert House and Cree
- Field Collector
- Rev. John M. Cooper
- Received from
- Catholic University Of America
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Quebec, Canada
- Collected in
- Quebec, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on July 6, 1956
Other
- Accession Number
- 211312