Totem-Pole
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Oct 1926
name: label: Collector
content: Herbert W. Krieger
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Old Kasaan, east coast, Prince of Wales Id., s.e. Alaska. Stood in front of "furthest forward house," K!atE-nE (K!at-nes, " front house") owner, Nesteu or Nastao, erected c. 1877. Totems from top down: two cloud-hatted watchers of high rank; head of bearded man, Nenki'lslas "Great One in the Sea"; eagle; killerwhale woman, with labret, tail turns up in front of pole; killerwhale, the face between his ears said to be his fin (informant Fannie Jones called this a shark "k!at, not the killerwhale). Literature: M. Barbeau: "Totem Poles, vol. II, p. 575. A.P. Niblack "The Coast Indians ... Rept. U.S.N.M., 1888. 6/12/68 - Many additional views of this specimen in the field are available in the SOA Archives [National Anthropological Archives]. GP"
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card lists a number of (old) black and white photo negative numbers for this artifact, however as of 2019 Smithsonian Institution Archives Photo Services could not locate any of these negatives in their files, and the Department of Anthropology does not have any prints made from these negatives in their files.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Prince Of Wales Island / Old Kasaan, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida, Kaigani
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 091522
label: USNM Number
content: E333921-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Crest Column
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 97 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 104 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 246 cm