Carved Wooden Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO SWAN'S LIST (FROM ACCESSION FILE) THIS PIECE IS DESCRIBED AS "FIGURE OF A MAN RESTING HIS ELBOWS ON HIS KNEES" AND IS IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF A GROUP OF "SITKA CARVINGS". NOTE: (AUGUST, 1997) ACCORDING TO DR. PETER MACNAIR, ETHNOLOGIST, THE FIGURE IS "JENNA CASS" TYPE. (S. CRAWFORD, SEPT., 1997). ILLUS. FIG. 65, P. 88 IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS FIGURE REPRESENTING MAN, TLINGIT, ARTIST UNKNOWN, C. 1870.
label: Notes
content: CATALOG NUMBER 13102 WAS ALSO ASSIGNED TO A HAIDA CANOE MODEL FROM SWAN'S COLLECTION BUT AS OF 1997 NO CANOE WITH THIS NUMBER COULD BE LOCATED.
label: Notes
content: Note: accession record indicates 2 Haida canoe models were part of this accession. Swan indicates in the accession record that some of the other artifacts in the accession were packed in these canoe models for shipping, so they were not very small. One was not described further in the accession record. The second is only listed as "fancy painted." These were given catalogue #s 13102 and 13103. MNH2373 is a black and white photo of canoe model 13102. This canoe model is described on p. 934 of the Collins Boat Ms., and there is a notation there that it was in the Division of Mechanical Technology as of 1899, but a subsequent undated annotation indicates it was accidentally destroyed. 13103 is also described in the Collins Boat Ms. on p. 932. The manuscript has an annotation indicating it was withdrawn from the Division of Technology by Otis Mason in 1899 (implying that it went to the Division of Ethnology), but as of 2016, this canoe model has not been located during various inventories.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, 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: 003284
label: USNM Number
content: E13102-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure