Found 5,978 items held at Refine Search .
Found 5,978 items held at Refine Search .
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.
O NO. 61; WOODEN CANOE MODEL INLAID WITH GLASS BEADS ACCORDING TO J.T. WALSH-A RED CEDAR NWC/NOOTKA/NUM-CHAH-NULTH CANOE, EARLY, POSSIBLY COLLECTED IN 1830S BY WILKES OR ? BRITISH MUSEUM HAS CANOE WITH SIMILAR DECORATION COLLECTED BY E. BELCHER, ACC'D 1842.This may possibly be a canoe-form bowl or dish, rather than a canoe model?
Per Deborah Ann Head, 6-3-2009, style of manufacture of this mat is not typical of the Tlingit. Collection locality of Sitka appears to have been erroneously attached to a number of the objects in the Howard collection. Mat may instead have been collected by Howard on Kodiak Island or Unalaska, Aleutians, where he also visited/collected in 1867.
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.
FROM CARD: "WHALE, 7" LONG."
FROM CARD: "THIRTY-EIGHT TEETH FROM 1/4 TO 3/8 INCH LONG."