Earrings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Sep 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: Charles L. McKay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. 1 EARRING OF THE PAIR ONLY WAS LENT THE OTHER IS IN STORAGE. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.324, P.240. 56070. - ONE EARRING RETURNED FROM LOAN 6-25-91." Crossroads catalogue caption idenfies these as bead and detalium shell earrings, and notes that dentalium shells "... were rare and costly items in the Pacific Coast trade network ...."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Bristol Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013527
label: USNM Number
content: E56070-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring