Ivory Doll-Head Dressed Item Number: E75445-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
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
- E75445-0
- 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