Headdress Or Mask Item Number: E233492-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 103, P. 417. CARVED WOODEN SHARK'S HEAD WITH THREE FINS HINGED BEHIND GILL LINES; ATTACHED TO FRONT SECTION IS A STRIP OF RUBBER CLOTH TERMINATING IN A WOODEN REAR FIN. 'FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OLD SHAKES [Sheiyksh], FORMER CHIEF OF THE NANYAAYI [Naanya.aayí].'"
Item History
- Made in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. John R. Swanton in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA during 1904
- Received from Bureau Of American Ethnology on January 27, 1905
What
- Name
- Headdress Or Mask
- Identification Number
- E233492-0
- Type of Item
- hat
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Stikine
- Field Collector
- Dr. John R. Swanton
- Received from
- Bureau Of American Ethnology
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1904
- Acquisition Date
- on January 27, 1905
Other
- Accession Number
- 043833