Nose Ornament Or Nose Pin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Dec 1882
name: label: Collector
content: W.J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 13, p. 24 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press.
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=157, retrieved 9-3-2012: Nose pin, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Alaska Peninsula. Men and women wore nose pins made of beads or carved bone. This one from the Alaska Peninsula is made of trade beads strung on copper wire.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska Peninsula / Iliamna Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012209
label: USNM Number
content: E72484-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Nose Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 12 cm