Headdress Frontlet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jun 1912
label: Collection Date
content: 1878 to 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Gov John G. Brady
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Edward H. Harriman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved of maple wood in high relief. Set with abalone and painted. Abalone set in resin. Rather good work." As of 2014, some of the abalone inlay is missing.
label: Notes
content: See p. 48 in Wright, Robin K. "Two Haida Artists from Yani: Will John Gwaytihl and Simeon Stilthda Please Step Apart," American Indian Art Magazine 23(3), Summer 1998. Wright identifies this beaver motif frontlet as having characteristics of the style of Skidegate Haida artist Simeon Stilthda/Simeon sdiihldaa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Skidegate (not certain), Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) (not certain) / Graham Island (not certain), Alaska (not certain) / British Columbia (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
label: Culture
content: Haida (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054171
label: USNM Number
content: E274264-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Frontlet