Sling
name: label: Culture/People
content: Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
label: Expedition
content: MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition (1924-1925) (Lothrop Tierra del Fuego Expedition)
label: Expedition leader
content: Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
label: Possible owner
content: Wits (unknown surname), Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected in 1925, possibly from Wits (Yámana), during the MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition, led by anthropologist Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member).
label: Contact Us
content: Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
place: label: Place
content: Puerto Mejillones (Magallanes); Antártica Chilena Province; Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region XII; Chile (inferred)
label: Archipelago
content: Tierra del Fuego Archipelago
label: Island Name
content: Isla Navarino (Navarin Island)
setName: label: See related items
content: Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
label: See related items
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 14/2350
label: Barcode
content: 142350.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
label: Indigenous Term
content: watewá, mataᵍwá
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Sling
label: Media/Materials
content: Commercially tanned leather, sinew, cotton cloth, guanaco hide/skin
label: Techniques
content: Wrapped, braided, tied