House Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: 4 WALLS OF A NW COAST HOUSE MODEL?, FRONT SECTION PAINTED YELLOW, RED AND BLACK. 3 UNPAINTED WALLS WERE FORMERLY T14557, BUT # HAS BEEN CHANGED TO T14554 SINCE IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THE 4 ARE A SET. TWO LOOSE BOARDS ARE WITH THIS AND ONE OF THEM HAS WRITING IN PENCIL: "Q. CHARLOTTE IS. SWAN". - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999
label: Notes
content: ROBIN WRIGHT, BURKE MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, FEELS TOTEM POLE MODEL T24468 MAY GO WITH THIS HOUSE MODEL. SHE HAS IDENTIFIED TOTEM POLE MODEL AS HAIDA STYLE.
label: Notes
content: A photo of what appears to be this house model and totem pole model ET24468 on display together at the Smithsonian circa 1879 (photo may actually date more specifically to 1882 - early 1885) is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID 2962 or MNH-2962, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 4, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8263 . House model with totem pole in front is on back right of photo in front of house front.
label: Notes
content: Per Robin Wright, Professor and Curator Emerita, University of Washington, 2018, ET14554 and ET24468 may be James Swan collection pieces, based on the similarity of the ET24468 model pole to another model pole, No. E74748, that is linked to Swan and carved by Johnny Kit Elswa, a copy of a chief's frontal pole in Tanu.
label: Notes
content: In James G. Swan correspondence in accession record No. 5260, Swan talks about sending two Haida house models. However, only one was catalogued, # E23547. It is possible house model ET14554/ET24468 or house model ET24565 may be from this accession?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET14554-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: House Model