Armour
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Jan 1910
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: It is unclear where this object is from, as there is conflicting information in the catalog documentation. The ledger book (and later, the catalog card) says “Kotzebue Sound”, and this was filled out shortly after the object was received at the museum in January 1910. However, "St. Lawrence Island" is written in ink on the object, and on a museum tag with the object. This was written sometime after the object was acquired by the Museum, probaby after the ledger book entry. There are no notes or clues in any of the documentation indicating who attributed the armor to either of these locations, or what information they were using. It is possible that one (or both) of the attributions were based on transcription errors or incorrect information. The accession file for this collection includes some itemized lists (apparently incomplete), but does not include this particular object, which would have been listed with its Department of Interior number, 392 (or “392-393”). There is no information in the accession file that seems to correspond with this object, other than a general reference to specimens of "Alaskan ethnology". Note that E260564-0 and E260564-1 (another set of armor) has similar information -- they are also DOI numbers 392-393 and listed as Kotzebue Sound in the ledger book. These armor pieces may (or may not) have been conflated/confused in the past.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kotzebue Sound (not certain) / St. Lawrence Island (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 051115
label: USNM Number
content: E260563-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Armor