Copper Item Number: E20778-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "TLINKIT USE THEM AS GONGS [sic]. PAINTED WITH DEVICES PREDOMINANTLY BLACK, SOME RED, AND A LITTLE GREEN. SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATED (FIG.3) AND MENTIONED IN TEXT (P.344) OF BOAS SOCIAL ORG. AND SECRET SOC. OF KWAKIUTL. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 3; P. 343." Caption for figure 3 in Boas states: "The painting on this plate represents the hawk. The upper face shows the hawk's head, and the lower face its body. The three lines on each side of the body are probably the talons."Anthropology catalogue ledger book and list in accession file (this object is # 30) identify this object as acquired in Sitka. It is included on list in accession file of objects "purchased of [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, Sitka."
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1875
- Received during 1876
What
- Name
- Copper
- Identification Number
- E20778-0
- Type of Item
- copper
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1876
Other
- Accession Number
- 004730