Carved Wooden Pipe, Bear Holding Bird In Mouth Item Number: E60198-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
The Anthropology catalogue ledger book identified this pipe as carved in the form of a bear holding a bird in its mouth. The word "bird" was mistranscribed as "birch", on the typed catalogue card.
Item History
- Made in Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ? during 1881
- Received on June 23, 1882
What
- Name
- Carved Wooden Pipe, Bear Holding Bird In Mouth
- Identification Number
- E60198-0
- Type of Item
- pipe
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
- Collected in
- Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
When
- Collection Date
- during 1881
- Acquisition Date
- on June 23, 1882
Other
- Accession Number
- 011616