Paint Brushes Item Number: E20548-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Wood handle carved into form of raven, wood split and bristles caught between. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 8 third and fourth from left, pg. 246. Ill. USNM AR 1888, pl. 45, fig. 251, p. 318. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64, loan returned Feb. 15, 1966. Loan: NHB Lobby Exhibit Oct. 24, 1991."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies as Sitka, it is unclear when or by whom the attribution on catalogue card to "Skittagetan stock", British Columbia was made.Listed on page 46 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by James G. Swan in British Columbia, Canada during 1875
- Received during 1876
What
- Name
- Paint Brushes
- Identification Number
- E20548-0
- Type of Item
- brush
Who
- Culture
- Haida and Skidegate
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1876
Other
- Accession Number
- 004730