Tlingit Rock Shelter transparencies
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4765
name: label: Collector
content: Grainger, George
topic: label: Topic
content: Mortuary customs -- Tlingit
label: Topic
content: Alaska -- Ketchikan -- cave burials
creator: label: Collector
content: Grainger, George
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Slides (photographs)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received from Mr George Grainger, B-2 2501 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, California, 92626, January 20, 1966.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4765
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Transparencies are of Tlingit rock shelter or cave burials, probably 18th century or earliier, on the shores of an island in South East Alaska near Ketchikan.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Catalog Number 4765: (1)-(3) Tribe: Tlingit Description: Color transparencies of Tlingit cave burials, probably 18th century or earlier, on the shores of an island in South East Alaska near Ketchikan.
label: Scope and Contents
content: From Mr Grainger's letter of transmittal, (January 17, 1966): "...Apparently the central figure is of a Tlingit native. The empty boxes appear to be of Russian or Chinese origin. However there was at least one native steamed board box, sans nails. The matting and rope are apparently of cedar bark weave. The sacrificial skull might possibly date this burial site before the purchase of Alaska in the era of slavery. The area is all above ground overhanging rocks in a sort of cave..."