Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

FROM CARD: "BONE, SKIN DRESSER."Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely # 20 on the list.Listed on page 47 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: "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: "WHALE-BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 29 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan.

FROM CARD: "BONE. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; PL. 18, FIG. 3; P. 784." Identified there as bone skin dresser.Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely # 21 on the list.Listed on page 47 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)".

359E; ORNAMENT OF CARVED WOODEN ANIMAL HEAD TIED TO CIRCULAR BRANCH WITH HAIR ATTACHED; TLINGIT, CHILKAT--G.T. EMMONS, COLLECTOR.Information below on American Museum of Natural History records, etc. was provided by Allen Wardwell, 1988. This object has a number E359 written on it. This is an American Museum of Natural History number and indicates the object comes from George Thornton Emmons collection, #359, at the American Museum. According to Allen Wardwell, this object was collected by Emmons between 1884 and 1893 and acquired by the AMNH in 1893. Over the years, a number of objects have left the AMNH collection in various ways, and the AMNH has no records that the piece was lent or traded from the collection. This object does not seem to match any of the catalogued items listed as having been donated to the Smithsonian by the AMNH or by George Thornton Emmons. Emmons' catalogue entry for # 359 at the AMNH reads: "359 Wooden, ornamental portion of Doctor's dance headdress - "Take-cheany" from Kluck-qwan, "Chilkhart-qwan," the property of a Doctor, the carved wooden head, represents a land otter. Ornamentally painted in black and red."

From card: "Of spruce root in the twined weave alternating with the checkered weave. Fitted with bear-hide handles (two). Used to carry berries on the back. From Kluckwan [presumably Klukwan] the Chilkat tribe, Tlingit, of southeastern Alaska."

From card: "Made from scalp locks." From accession file: "Festival headdress, made from the hair of women from Kluckwon, the Chilkat tribe, and worn by men. It imitates the wearing of the hair by the interior Athabaskan tribes, Yukon Valley. The beaded ornaments are to represent earrings."