Face Paint Material 1 Item Number: E233497-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Piece of red fringe used for face paint."This material is described on the catalogue card as "fringe." It may be speculated that this material is actually a kind of fungus.Listed on page 47 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 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
- Face Paint Material 1
- Identification Number
- E233497-0
- Type of Item
- pigment
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