Headdress Or Helmet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Jan 1905
label: Collection Date
content: 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John R. Swanton
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 105, P. 419. HOLLOWED OUT OF A SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD CA. 2 INCHES THICKNESS, WITH A GROOVE CUT JUST INSIDE THE LIP AREA FOR THE INSERTION OF SEPARATELY CARVED ROWS OF WOODEN TEETH, ONLY PART OF THOSE ON THE LOWER JAW LEFT (AS OF 1954). LIP AREA PAINTED BLUE. ALL BUT THE LIPS COVERED WITH SKIN WITH HAIR ON, ATTACHED AROUND THE LIPS WITH WOODEN PEGS. DOUBLE FLAPS OF SKIN SEWN ON TO FORM EARS. 'OWNED BY 'JIM COONIE', A KACHADI.'"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Sep 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Wrangell Island / Fort Wrangell, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043833
label: USNM Number
content: E233493-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Helmet