Token: brass
- Museum number:
- 2-61637
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020061637
- Accession number:
- Acc.3323
- Description:
- Token, made of brass. Obverse: "W. A. CARTER" "POST TRADER" "FORT BRIDGER" Reverse: "VALUE" "1.00
- Donor:
- Virginia Vail
- Collection place:
- Fort Bridger, Uinta, Wyoming
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Wyoming; Uinta; Fort Bridger
- Culture or time period:
- Shoshone and United States Historic
- Maker or artist:
- W. A. Carter
- Collector:
- James K. Moore Sr.
- Collection date:
- 1860-1869
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Store cards
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Production date:
- 1860-1869
- Context of use:
- Indian trading post token.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 3.8 centimeters and width 16.21 grams
- Comment:
- References: Cf. 2-61617. "Post Trader and Indian Trader Tokens" by J. K. Moore, Jr. in Annals of Wyoming, V. 27:2, Oct. 1955, publ. by Wyoming State Historical Society; fotocopy in acc. env.
- Legacy documentation:
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