Slate Totem-Pole Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1883
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Bear-killer whale, raven, beaver, and fishhawk motifs. Same artist as 274591 - CN Kaufmann 8/67" Illus. Pl. 306, p. 385 and described p. 398 and 410 in Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as the beaver with bone-of-whale teeth inlaid or glued on, and abalone shell inlays in his eyes and ears; the raven with abalone shell inlays; the killer-whale, also with whale bone teeth glued on, and inlaid abalone eyes. Attributed by Henry Young to Moses McKay.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013804
label: USNM Number
content: E88987-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Crest Column Model