Head Ornament With Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OBTAINED BY INNUIT FROM DR. RAE. INVENTORIED 1974." FROM CARD: "NECKLACE.--BAND OF TANNED SEALSKIN, 1/2 INCH BROAD AND 18 INCHES LONG, TO WHICH ARE PENDANT TEETH OF THE ARCTIC FOX, VULPES LAGOPUS, BY MEANS OF THREADS OF SINEW AND STRINGS OF BLUE AND WHITE BEADS; TEETH PIERCED WITH HOLES AT ROOT. THE BEADS ARE SOME OBTAINED BY THE INNUITS FROM DR. [JOHN] RAE. THE NECKLACE WAS WORN BY THE ESKINMO OF PELLY BAY. KING WILLISM'S LAND, 1870. 10,410. COLLECTED BY CAPT. CHAS. F. HALL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pelly Bay, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10410-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress