Loon Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "49079-80. # 49079 LOON. #49079 - ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; FIG. 145; P. 417. INVENTORIED 1976."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E49079 - E49080 as "loon headdress". This was mistranscribed in second copy of ledger book and on catalogue card as "lava headdress."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=585 , retrieved 12-17-2021; see web page for additional information: Headdress, Inupiaq. This man's dance headdress is made from the head, neck, and back of a loon. It is worn like a headband with the beak projecting from the dancer's forehead and parts of the skin dangling down over his neck and shoulders. A specific atuutaat (dance song) is performed with the Loon Dance. "When they were doing the whale celebration, some of the men would wear these. When we're doing the Messenger Feast dance this is also worn. And then there's another dance that goes with it, the Loon Dance." -Ronald Brower, Sr. (Inupiat Heritage Center) 2002.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E49079-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 53 cm