| No. |
Package |
Contents |
| 1 |
Box |
Skins of the Male and female Antelope, with their skeletons. [came.P.] |
| " |
do |
2 Horns and ears, of the Black tail, or Mule Deer. [came] |
| " |
" |
A Martin skin [came] containing the skin of a weasel [came.P.] and three small squirels of the Rocky Mountains & the tail of a Mule deer fully grown. [came.] |
| " |
" |
Skeletons of the small, or burrowing wolf of the Prairies, the skin haveing been lost by accident. [some skeletons came, not distin-guishable. Sent to P.] |
| " |
" |
2 skeletons of the White Hare. [as above.P.] |
| " |
" |
A Mandan bow with a quiver of arrows [came] the quiver containing some seed of the Mandan tobacco.[came.] |
| " |
" |
A carrot of Ricara tobacco. [came.] |
| 2 |
Box |
4 Buffalo robes, [came] and an ear of Mandan corn. |
| 3 |
Box |
Skins of the male and female Antelope, with thier skeletons [undistinguishable. P.] nand the skin of a brown, or yellow Bear. |
| 4 |
Box |
Specimens of earths, salts, and minerals, numbered from 1. to 67. [came.] |
| " |
" |
Specimens of plants numbered from 1 to 60. [came.] [A. Ph. Society.] |
| " |
" |
1 earthen pot, such as the Mandans manufacture, and use for culinary purposes. [came.] |
| " |
" |
1 tin box containing insects, mice &c. |
| " |
" |
a specimen of the fur of the Antelope. |
| " |
" |
a specimen of the plant, and a parcel of its roots, highly prized by the natives as an efficatious remidy in the cure of the bite of the rattle snake, or mad dog. in a Large Trunk Skin of a Male and female Braro, or burrowing Dog of the Prairies, with the skeleton of the female. [came. P.] |
| " |
in a Large Trunk |
1 skin of a red fox containing a Magpie. [came.] |
| " |
" |
2 cased skins of the white hare. [came. P.] |
| " |
" |
1 Minetarre Buffalow robe, [came] containing some articles of an Indian dress.[came.] |
| " |
" |
1 Mandan Buffalow robe, [came] containing a dressed skin of the Louisvire [came] and two cased skins of the burrowing squirels of the Prairies. [came. P.] |
| " |
" |
13 red fox skins [came.] |
| " |
" |
4 horns of the mountian ram, or big horn. [came.] |
| " |
" |
1 Buffalow robe painted by a Mandan man representing a battle which was faught 8 years since by the Siouxs & Ricaras, against the Mandans, Minitarras & Ahwahharways.[came.] |
| 6 |
Cage |
Containing four liveing Magpies. [came. P.] |
| 7 |
do. |
Containing a liveing burrowing squirel of the prairies. [came. P.] |
| 9 |
do. |
Containing one liveing hen of the Prairie. |
| 10 |
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1 large par of Elk�s horns connected by the frontal bone. |
