Medicine-Woman Item Number: E46498-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From Swan original tag with artifact: [Represents] "Indian woman from Cooks Inlet a medicine or conjurer, [presumbably collected in] Sitka, Alaska, 1881, J.G. Swan." Brass? button on right wrist of figure is decorated with Heraldic eagle grasping a bundle of arrows and an olive branch; eagle has shield on breast with an I? in center of shield.
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1881
- Received on December 10, 1881
What
- Name
- Medicine-Woman
- Identification Number
- E46498-0
- Type of Item
- figure
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
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 1881
- Acquisition Date
- on December 10, 1881
Other
- Accession Number
- 010841