Engraved Silver Bracelets Item Number: E19542-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL DESIGN. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---SILVER BAND, 3/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLET; LAPPING-SPRING CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,542. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN." Illus. Fig. 35, p. 56 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Bunn-Marcuse identifies this bracelet as floral design and speculates that this type of design may be based on illustrated jeweler's pattern books of European designs available at that time.
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1875
- Received during 1875
What
- Name
- Engraved Silver Bracelets
- Identification Number
- E19542-0
- Type of Item
- bracelet
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 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1875
Other
- Accession Number
- 004523