Headdress Or Helmet Item Number: E233493-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 105, P. 419. HOLLOWED OUT OF A SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD CA. 2 INCHES THICKNESS, WITH A GROOVE CUT JUST INSIDE THE LIP AREA FOR THE INSERTION OF SEPARATELY CARVED ROWS OF WOODEN TEETH, ONLY PART OF THOSE ON THE LOWER JAW LEFT (AS OF 1954). LIP AREA PAINTED BLUE. ALL BUT THE LIPS COVERED WITH SKIN WITH HAIR ON, ATTACHED AROUND THE LIPS WITH WOODEN PEGS. DOUBLE FLAPS OF SKIN SEWN ON TO FORM EARS. 'OWNED BY 'JIM COONIE', A KACHADI.'"
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 Helmet
- Identification Number
- E233493-0
- Type of Item
- helmet
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- 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