Chest With Top And Bottom.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jun 1912
label: Collection Date
content: 1878 to 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Gov John G. Brady
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Edward H. Harriman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Bent wood sides, heavy top inlaid with opercula; sides carved and painted. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 182. From: page 82, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page: 73. Chest. Wood; carved in relief; painted black and red; inlaid with opercula and abalone shell; kerfed and sewn. Length: 38 [inches]. Alaska. Collected by John G. Brady."
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=321, retrieved 3-31-2012: Chest or Box, Tlingit, Southeast Alaska.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 43 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: 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: 054171
label: USNM Number
content: E274488-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 96 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 97 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 44.4 cm