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Snowshoes (Pair)19/637 B

SECOND REPORT ON THE ESKIMO OF BAFFIN LAND AND HUDSON BAY. FROM NOTES COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN GEORGE COMER, CAPTAIN JAMES S. MUTCH, AND REV. E.J. PECK. BOAS, FRANZ BULLETIN, 15, 1907

Culture
Tlingit: Chilkat
Material
wood, hide and string
Made in
Chilkat, Haines Borough, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Snowshoes (Pair)19/637 A
Packing BoxE7830-1

Rectangular box; no top/lid present. Card indicates this is Inuit made.E7830 is listed, but not described or analyzed, in 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/136 , retrieved 2-11-2020. General information on boxes available here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/12: The MacFarlane collection contains a variety of wooden boxes. Boxes carved from single pieces of wood, and boxes with sides made from bent pieces of wood with bottoms pegged to them, are traditional Inuvialuit forms that were used for storing tools and other objects. Boxes with separate pieces for each side, bottom and top identified in the Smithsonian Institution's artifact catalogue as 'Packing Box Made by Esquimaux' may have been commissioned by MacFarlane for packing artifacts that were sent to the Smithsonian.

Culture
Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Pendants16.1/273 C

Culture
Tlingit
Material
tooth and metal
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Pendants (2)16.1/273 A

Culture
Tlingit
Material
tooth and metal
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Earrings, Fur SealE/2575 B
Earrings, Fur SealE/2575 A
Earrings (Pair)E/508 B

PEARLS (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2001)

Culture
Tlingit: Taku Qwan
Material
abalone shell
Made in
Taku Qwan, Sick Nar Son Kee, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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