Iron Ornament

Item number E10313-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PlL VI, FIG. 11, P. 260. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENT CATALOGUE; FIG. 62, P.60. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as an iron ornament formed into bifurcated scrolls, and notes that his motif was popular on Athabaskan knife handles. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABLE WITH CARD: "HAIR ORNAMENT.--MADE OF STEEL, HIGHLY POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. THIS FORM IS VERY ANCIENT AND VALUED AT ONE OR TWO SLAVES. WORN BY YOUNG GIRLS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), NASS R., B. C. 10,313. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. F. W. RING, U. S. A. [sic, this should be Lt. F. M. Ring]. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."