Carved Wooden Pipe Item Number: E67898-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "CARVED IN-THE-ROUND: BEAR-SHAPED, WITH FRONT PAWS RESTING ON A FISH. PIPE BOWL OF BRASS." Fish is a salmon, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.Note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Sitka, not Chilkat. Source of Chilkat cultural ID on catalogue card is unknown, though it may be based on list in accession file? Current catalogue card appears to have been typed circa 1976?
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1882
- Received on November 3, 1882
What
- Name
- Carved Wooden Pipe
- Identification Number
- E67898-0
- Type of Item
- pipe
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Chilkat
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1882
- Acquisition Date
- on November 3, 1882
Other
- Accession Number
- 012009