Neck Ring

Item number E233456-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Roll of native woven s[t]uff covered with windings of bark cord in two shades forming triangular figures. Pendant band of cords at the back."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=666, retrieved 3-31-2012: Neck Ring. Tsimshian celebrants danced in cedar-bark rings, imitating the dress and actions of beings who were described in the origin story of each secret society. Bark rings were hung outside on the houses where ceremonies were in progress, to warn away the uninitiated. This ring consists of several crossed layers of twisted bark cord wrapped around wool; the sash is made of twisted bark cords, each ending in a knot and tassel.