Nose Pendant Of Haliotis
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.59, P. 58. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=525, retrieved 4-24-2012: Nose ornament or nose ring, Tsimshian. High ranking men wore abalone shell nose pendants like this one. As young boys they received nasal perforations to hold pendants or pins, while girls had their lower lips pierced for labrets. Most abalone shell (also called haliotis) was acquired in trade from coastal tribes to the south, in exchange for eulachon oil, blankets, and spoons that the Tsimshian carved from the horns of wild goats and sheep.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004686
label: USNM Number
content: E20633-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Nose Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 4.31 cm