Carved Bone Charm
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Sep 1880
name: label: Collector
content: Commander Lester A. Beardslee
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BONE OR IVORY CARVING (SHAMAN'S CHARM).---THE MIDDLE PORTION SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES THE BODY OF A MARINE WORM (NEREIS), IN HAVING LATERAL APPENDAGES. THE ENDS REPRESENT GROTESQUE HEADS, THE LONGER ONE BEING SPLIT AFTER THE FASHION OF A CLOWN'S BATON. SITKA, ALASKA, 1880. COLLECTED BY COM. L. A. BEARDSLEE, U. S. N. ."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009256
label: USNM Number
content: E43249-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Charm