FROM THE LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES. JONAITIS, ALDONA, 1988

Gift of Nobuko Kajitani

FROM CARD: "HEAD-DRESS: ROLLS AND "SWITCHES" OF DARK-COLORED HAIR USED IN DRESSING HAIR OF ESKIMO CHILDREN. ESKIMO NEAR FORT ANDERSON."There is a combined catalogue card for #s 7731 and 7732. The description "Head Covering (Capuchin)" applies to # 7731 only. 7732 is the "HEAD-DRESS: ROLLS AND "SWITCHES" OF DARK-COLORED HAIR..."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/256 , retrieved 2-10-2020: Hairpiece made by gathering long sections of [dark-colored] hair and binding them at the ends and in the middle using sinew and red wool. The Smithsonian Institution's catalogue indicates that this hairpiece may have been for a child. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/29: Inuvialuit women are known to have worn coils of their husbands' hair attached to their own hair. These coils of hair are said to have been one of their most valuable possessions.

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."

Florence Sheakley and Ruth Demmert, both beaders and elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design of this object was copied from bakestry and uses large, size 10 beads.