Feather Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Oct 1937
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Oval loop of black & white hair (?) with fringe of 1/4" red feathers; at loop prow, partly braided sinew cord. Illus. Hrdlicka, 1945, fig. 234, p. 593."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 26, p. 44 in in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. Identified there on pp. 43 - 44 as a unique object, found in a woman's workbox, described as a decorative loop, "an article of bark, sinew cord, feathers and hair we label "Macrame loop"." It is also noted: "This large loop is the first known instance of a form used on some Eastern Aleut and Alutiiq festive gut garments as seam decorations."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kagamil Island, Samalga Island Quad / Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 143191
label: USNM Number
content: A389858-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ornament