Wooden Visor Item Number: E74344-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Wooden slab cut from the solid and given an oval shape by parallel grooves cut in parallel on reverse and by securing the ends at back with rawhide thong. Excavation on reverse for nose, and slotted at top for vision, perforated for breathing. Unfinished. Carved in stylistically on left side only, which is also painted in vermillion and black. See: "Primitive American Armor", by Walter Hough. Report, U.S.N.M. for 1893, pp. 625-651."
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 December 27, 1884
What
- Name
- Wooden Visor
- Identification Number
- E74344-0
- Type of Item
- visor
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- 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 December 27, 1884
Other
- Accession Number
- 015504