Headdress Of 6 Carved Horns
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Jun 1943
label: Collection Date
content: 1891 to 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Stanley-Brown
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved horns mounted on buckskin band."
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=704 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Headdress On this shaman's crown, mountain goat horns carved in the shape of bear claws are fastened to a leather head band. The eyes of the spirit faces at the base of each horn are inset with abalone shell. On solitary spirit quests in the mountains, a shaman might dream of the power to cure sickness, and acquire that ability; or he might be visited by Property Woman who controlled wealth, and become rich through his practice.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southeast, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 165342
label: USNM Number
content: E383159-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm