Charms Worn When Hunting, Around The Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; P1. 54, FIG. 54; P.836. INVENTORIED 1975." FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTS FOR HAT.---WALRUS IVORY. NORTON SOUND ESKIMO. ALASKA, 1876. 24,703. COLLECTED BY L. M. TURNER. THESE ARE CHARMS TO AID THE HUNTER ---THE HEAD AND WINGS OF THE GULL AND THE HEAD OF THE WALRUS; THE WINGS TO AID HIM TO SKIM RAPIDLY OVER THE WATER, THE HEADS TO GIVE HIM POWER TO SEE UNDER THE WATER. THEY ARE WORN UPON THE HAT, THE WINGS ON EITHER SIDE HANGING OUT; THE GULLS' HEADS ONE ABOVE EACH TEMPLE, BILL DOWNWARD; THE WALRUS HEADS ONE ABOVE EACH EYE. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00100
label: USNM Number
content: E24703-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat