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Caribou Hunting Charm

National Museum of Natural History

E395309-0

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.)"

  • Type of Item charm
  • Culture Montagnais, Rupert House, Cree
  • Field Collector Rev. John M. Cooper
  • Received from Catholic University Of America
  • Made in Quebec
  • Collected in Quebec
  • Acquisition Date on July 6, 1956
  • Accession Number 211312

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