Found 9,752 Refine Search items .
Found 9,752 Refine Search items .
The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.
View TutorialLog In to see more items.
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)".
FROM CARD: "60136-40. [From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "HORN SPOONS. BOWLS, MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE HANDLES ARE MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, IN CANADA, AND THROUGHOUT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE HORN OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP IS USED IN MAKING DOMESTIC UTENSILS. THE HORN OF THE GOAT ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO THE CARVER'S ART, AND BY THE TLINGIT INDIANS IS CARVED AND ENGRAVED TO REPRESENT TOTEMIC IDEAS."
FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD IN THE FORM OF A FISH WITH THE HANDLE PROJECTING FROM NEAR THE TAIL. THE BODY MADE IN TWO SECTIONS HOLLOWED AND FASTENED TOGETHER. DESIGN: "ORCA". THE WHOLE CHARACTERIZED BY THE DORSAL FINS AND FORMIDABLE TEETH. SEE U.S.M. REPORT (NIBLACK) 1888, PL. LIX, NO. 310. PAINTED RED AND BLACK. (P. 330)."
Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 612, collector is Lieut. Paddock, 2nd Artillery, U.S.A. and object is identified as "Labret formerly used by married women (Thlinkets), Sitka."
FROM CARD: "TABLE MATS."