Model Of Man And Reindeer?
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: Small model of man and reindeer? In very bad condition/broken. These were found with, but may not be related to, a diorama of 2 skin lodges and other miscellaneous figures, ET24577-0. Alll had previously been stored with E252000 but are not part of that object. Identified by Igor Krupnik as possibly Sami. Speculatively, these model figures might be part of Accession 396, year 1864, a collection of Sami material from the "Ethnological Museum, Christiana [sic]", Norway (now the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway), though the Department of Anthropology has no record of Accession No. 396 objects having been catalogued in the old USNM Division of Ethnology collections. A November 4, 1863 letter from Louis [Ludvig] Kr. Daa of that institution to Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry, on file in Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 26, indicates this collection includes models. Alternatively, and again speculatively, model also might have been part of Accession No. 51115?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Lapland (Sápmi) (not certain), Finland (not certain) / Norway (not certain) / Sweden (not certain) / Russia (not certain), Europe (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sámi (Saami) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET24577-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure