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Pipe And PipestemE395294-0

From card: "Gift of Tommy Jacob, 1932. Grey steatite pipe bowl in form of a hatchet, with few excised half circle decorations, attached by a thong from base of bowl to middle of wooden stem. This plain form is the old one."

Culture
Montagnais, Rupert House and Cree
Made in
Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Fox-Chin CharmE395303-0

From card: "Skin with hair from beneath the lower jaw of a "fox", folded over with string of blue and white beads on the edges."

Culture
Montagnais, Rupert House and Cree
Made in
Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Carrying String (Nimaban)E395280-0
Wooden PlateE395289-0
Birchbark BasketE395290-2
Cup-And-Pin Game (Tapaga 'Towan')E395295-0
Bear Hip Bone Charms 2E395300-0

From card: "Gift of Ethel Stevens, 1934. The separate sides of the pelvis, kept hung up out of reverence for the bear."

Culture
Montagnais, Rupert House and Cree
Made in
Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Caribou Hunting CharmE395309-0

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.)"

Culture
Montagnais, Rupert House and Cree
Made in
Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden Spoons (Mutikwemikwan) 2E395288-0
Deer Shoulder-Blade CharmE395302-0

From card: "Gift of Ethel Stevens, 1934. Scapula of a "Virginia deer." Hung on a tree to honor the deer. No working."

Culture
Montagnais, Rupert House and Cree
Made in
Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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