Native Cord From Spruce Roots Item Number: E20860-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "PUTNAM 5/88." This seems to refer to a partial transfer. This information is also written in the second ledger book in red ink.The first Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this object as "native cord from spruce roots, 1 bundle or coil." The second ledger book has this description, but the words "packing box" have been added as an addition in red ink to the description. In 1888, a bent wood box with this number was transferred to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. As of 2010, one coiled length of fiber cord with this number is still in the Anthropology collections.
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
- Native Cord From Spruce Roots
- Identification Number
- E20860-0
- Type of Item
- line
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