Headdress Or Mask Item Number: E233479-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "CARVED WOODEN KILLER WHALE WITH LONG FLAT UPRIGHT BACK FIN. PAINTED BLACK. MADE TO WEAR ON TOP OF HEAD, WITH CORDS FOR TYING UNDER WEARER'S CHIN. 'FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OLD SHAKES [Sheiyksh], FORMER CHIEF OF THE NANYAAYI [Naanya.aayí].' ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 104, P. 418."
Item History
- Made in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. John R. Swanton in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA during 1904
- Received from Bureau Of American Ethnology on January 27, 1905
What
- Name
- Headdress Or Mask
- Identification Number
- E233479-0
- Type of Item
- hat
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Stikine
- Field Collector
- Dr. John R. Swanton
- Received from
- Bureau Of American Ethnology
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1904
- Acquisition Date
- on January 27, 1905
Other
- Accession Number
- 043833