Ivory Doll-Head Dressed Item Number: E75448-1 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Small ivory head with carved features. Beige cotton calico print shirt and skirt.List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1884
- Received on February 9, 1885
What
- Name
- Ivory Doll-Head Dressed
- Identification Number
- E75448-1
- Type of Item
- doll
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ? or 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 1884
- Acquisition Date
- on February 9, 1885
Other
- Accession Number
- 015716