Bracelet, Bone Item Number: E168376-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "MEDICINE MAN'S. BONE BRACELET."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 39 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List describes object as "Doctors bone bracelet ... worn by the doctor in practising about the sick[?] is supposed to give power."Listed on page 48 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 Klukwan, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Klukwan, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Bracelet, Bone
- Identification Number
- E168376-0
- Type of Item
- bracelet
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Chilkat
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072