Shaman's Hairpin Item Number: E233478-1 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "...B) whale bone; curved shaft, circular carved head."Listed on page 46 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)".
Item History
- Made in Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. John R. Swanton in Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA during 1904
- Received from Bureau Of American Ethnology on January 27, 1905
What
- Name
- Shaman's Hairpin
- Identification Number
- E233478-1
- Type of Item
- hair pin
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
- Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1904
- Acquisition Date
- on January 27, 1905
Other
- Accession Number
- 043833