Wooden Visor
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Dec 1884
label: Collection Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Sgt. John J. McLean
label: Donor Name
content: Sgt. John J. McLean
notes: label: Notes
content: Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Wooden slab cut from the solid and given an oval shape by parallel grooves cut in parallel on reverse and by securing the ends at back with rawhide thong. Excavation on reverse for nose, and slotted at top for vision, perforated for breathing. Unfinished. Carved in stylistically on left side only, which is also painted in vermillion and black. See: "Primitive American Armor", by Walter Hough. Report, U.S.N.M. for 1893, pp. 625-651."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 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
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015504
label: USNM Number
content: E74344-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Visor