House Panels With Totemic Carvings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Apr 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DESIGNS OF AN OLD "GARS" POST IN CHIEF'S HOUSE. POSSIBLY KLUCKWAN. "FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ITEMS DEPICTED IN PHOTOGRAPHS 860 & 860A, SEE: EMMONS, GEORGE T. THE WHALE HOUSE OF THE CHILKAT. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY VOL XIX, PART I (1916) THESE CARVINGS MAY BE SOME MADE FOR THE NEW WHALE HOUSE AT KLUCKWAN WHICH WAS STARTED BETWEEN 1899-1901, BUT NEVER FINISHED, OR THEY MAY BE CARVINGS MADE FOR SOME OTHER UNKNOWN USE. WCS [William C. Sturtevant]."
label: Notes
content: Note: the Accession papers for Accession # 27833 for the year 1894 list the following objects: "TWO RECENT CARVINGS (TOTEMS) YELLOW CEDAR FROM ALASKA EX. WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. MODERN WORK OF TLINKIT INDIAN PRESENTED BY DEPT. OF INTERIOR WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, F. W. CLARKE REP., COLLECTED BY LIEUT. G. T. EMMONS." Accession file 27833 does not record the catalogue number or numbers for these artifacts, nor have they been identified in the collections to date. It therefore can be speculated that the two house posts Catalogue No. 169102 may possibly be the objects referenced?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Klukwan (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Chilkat
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028072
label: USNM Number
content: E169102-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: House Post