RRN - Items - The NMNH: E67903-0 - Carved Box For Holding Food

Carved Box For Holding Food Item Number: E67903-0 from the National Museum of Natural History

Notes

FROM CARD: "BENT BOWL, WOOD, CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LOANED, RENWICK GALLERY NOV. 7, 1973 (BOXES & BOWLS) RET'D., 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "67903. FROM: PAGE 71, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 62.BENT BOWL. WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LENGTH: 14 3/4. (TLINGIT), CHILKAT, ALASKA. "FOOD BOX." COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED NOVEMBER 24, 1882. 67,903."

Item History

Made in Chilkat, Alaska, USA ? or Kluckwan, Alaska, USA ?
Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Chilkat, Alaska, USA ? or Kluckwan, Alaska, USA ? during 1882
Received on November 3, 1882

What

Name: Carved Box For Holding Food
Identification Number: E67903-0
Type of Item: box

Who

Culture: Tlingit
Field Collector: Sgt. John J. McLean

Where

Holding Institution: National Museum of Natural History
Made in: Chilkat, Alaska, USA ? or Kluckwan, Alaska, USA ?
Collected in: Chilkat, Alaska, USA ? or Kluckwan, Alaska, USA ?

When

Collection Date: during 1882
Acquisition Date: on November 3, 1882

Other

Accession Number: 012009