Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 58r
Additional Source Text:
"Being used by the Indians to ornament their hair with."
Notes:
Orignal is the French word for moose.
The donor was Philadelphia physician Dr. Thomas Parke (1749-1835), for whom see Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 3d ser. vol. 9 (1887): clxiv-clxvi.
