Hairpiece: Rolls And "Switches" Of Human Hair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HEAD-DRESS: ROLLS AND "SWITCHES" OF DARK-COLORED HAIR USED IN DRESSING HAIR OF ESKIMO CHILDREN. ESKIMO NEAR FORT ANDERSON."
label: Notes
content: There is a combined catalogue card for #s 7731 and 7732. The description "Head Covering (Capuchin)" applies to # 7731 only. 7732 is the "HEAD-DRESS: ROLLS AND "SWITCHES" OF DARK-COLORED HAIR..."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/256 , retrieved 2-10-2020: Hairpiece made by gathering long sections of [dark-colored] hair and binding them at the ends and in the middle using sinew and red wool. The Smithsonian Institution's catalogue indicates that this hairpiece may have been for a child. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/29: Inuvialuit women are known to have worn coils of their husbands' hair attached to their own hair. These coils of hair are said to have been one of their most valuable possessions.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Anderson, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 69A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E7732-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Ornament