Headdress Of 6 Carved Horns Item Number: E383159-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Carved horns mounted on buckskin band."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=704 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Headdress On this shaman's crown, mountain goat horns carved in the shape of bear claws are fastened to a leather head band. The eyes of the spirit faces at the base of each horn are inset with abalone shell. On solitary spirit quests in the mountains, a shaman might dream of the power to cure sickness, and acquire that ability; or he might be visited by Property Woman who controlled wealth, and become rich through his practice.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Joseph Stanley-Brown in Alaska, USA between 1891 and 1898
- Received from Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown on June 14, 1943
What
- Name
- Headdress Of 6 Carved Horns
- Identification Number
- E383159-0
- Type of Item
- headdress
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Field Collector
- Joseph Stanley-Brown
- Received from
- Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1891 and 1898
- Acquisition Date
- on June 14, 1943
Other
- Accession Number
- 165342