Child's Dish Item Number: E20858-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 40, FIG. 207; P. 316. 1/6/67: THE BOWL ILLUS. (ABOVE) IS NOT THE SAME AS USNM #20858. BASICALLY IT IS KWAKIUTL IN APPEARANCE (DRUCKER, BAE, 1955, P. 72), BUT HAS TWO IDENTIFICATIONS HAND WRITTEN ON THE INSIDE AND UNDERSIDE: 1-STIKINE INDIANS, FT. WRANGEL, ALASKA; 2 - NO. 77, HAIDA INDIAN, KLEMMAKOON VILLAGE [i.e. Klinkwan], PRINCE OF WALES ID. GP. THE ILLUS. SPECIMEN RETAINS CAT. #20858, THE CONFLICTING SPECIMEN IS CATALOGED #20858-A. LOAN TO 1876 CENTENNIAL COMM. 4/20/76. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)". Listed under incorrect number, 28858.
Item History
- Made in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA during 1875
- Received during 1876
What
- Name
- Child's Dish
- Identification Number
- E20858-0
- Type of Item
- dish
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Stikine
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
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 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1876
Other
- Accession Number
- 004730