Cedar Bark Cape
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Dec 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Thomas Knowles and Co.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF NARROW BUNDLES OF CEDARBARK, HUNG OVER A THICK CORD AT THE TOP, AND BOUND TOGETHER WITH STRIPS OF CLOTH TWISTED AROUND EACH BUNDLE ALL THE WAY AROUND THE CAPE WHICH IS MADE AS A CONTINUOUS STRIP. THESE STRIPS OF BINDING CONTINUE DOWN THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE CAPE, EVERY HALF INCH. IT WAS MADE TO PUT OVER THE HEAD AND RESTS ON THE SHOULDERS. THIS SPECIMEN WAS INCLUDED IN THIS ACCESSION BECAUSE A TAG OF THIS COS. WAS ON IT WITHOUT ANY OTHER NUMBER. R. ELDER, JR." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, Case 29. Exhibit label identified it as a rain cape.
label: Notes
content: Cape woven of inner bark of the cedar and, near the bottom, strips of cotton cloth. A row of cotton cloth is also woven into the cedar near the neck. The neck is bound with a leather strip, wound around it.
label: Notes
content: There is some question whether this is actually part of accession 12296. It was formerly on exhibit in NMNH Exhibit Hall 9, case 29, and the exhibit book noted about it (presumably based on a tag with the artifact?) that it was "Swan # 25", which would imply it was collected/donated by James G. Swan. However, no tag with that information was located when it was removed from exhibit in 2004. E72662 from Accession No. 12690 is a cape from Swan that was not located during the inventory, and its field number was 25, so it is possible that the cape currently called E55800A is really E72662.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Neah Bay, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012296
label: USNM Number
content: E55800A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cape
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 83 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 6.5 cm