Invoice of articles forwarded from Fort Mandan to the President
of the United States through Captn. Stoddard at St. Louis and
Mr. H.B. Trist the Collector of the Port of New Orleans.
Source: National Archives
| 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 |
---- |
1 large
par of Elk?s horns connected by the frontal bone.
|
