Engraved Silver Bracelet Item Number: E19539-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELET.---HAMMERED OUT FROM A SILVER COIN AND ORNAMENTED WITH SCROLL WORK. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,539. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THE TOOLS USED IN MAKING THESE BRACELETS ARE OF THE MOST PRIMITIVE [SIC] KIND, CONSISTING OF A HAMMER, COLD CHISEL, AND A SHARP STEEL CARVING TOOL. ON THE LARGER BRACELETS THE TOTEMIC DESIGN OF THE WEARER IS USUALLY CARVED." FROM CARD: 19539-19540. #19539 (TLINGIT) - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 8, FIG. 27, P. 260. SILVER BRACELETS ALSO BEAR THESE NUMBERS & ARE ON ONE CARD COVERING 19530-46."
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Alaska, USA during 1875
- Received during 1875
What
- Name
- Engraved Silver Bracelet
- Identification Number
- E19539-0
- Type of Item
- bracelet
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1875
Other
- Accession Number
- 004523