Journal article
Governor William b. Caldwell’s souvenir: exoticism and a gentleman’s reputation
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The extensive collections of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology include a remarkable object, a decorated and dried human hand. [1] The skin has been flayed to the final joints of the fingers, the fingernails are intact, and it is decorated at the wrist with silk ribbon appliqué and a feather pendant. It is a war trophy, of a kind found across the northern Plains in the context of inter-tribal warfare, along with scalps, finger-bone...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Manitoba Historical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Manitoba History Journal website
- Volume:
- 73
- Publication date:
- 2013-11-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-08-31
- ISSN:
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0226-5036
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-12-01
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- Manitoba Historical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © 2013 Manitoba Historical Society. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Manitoba Historical Society
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