Horn Dish Carved And Inlaid
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 40, FIG. 203; P. 316 ALSO Pl. 41, FIG. 217; P. 318. LOAN: R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM, DEC. 31, 1964. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966. LOANED TO THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ON SEPT. 10, 1971. RETURNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 2-9-72. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73."
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "20856. FROM: PAGE 59, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 42. CARVED BOWL HORN, CARVED IN RELIEF; INLAID WITH ABALONE SHELL LENGTH: 8 1/4 ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN., JUNE 30, 1875. 20,856."
label: Notes
content: Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair 7-20-2005 identify as mountain sheep horn bowl with abalone inlay.
label: Notes
content: Accession file lists no culture or locality for this object, Swan original # 75. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies as Haida. Someone unknown has added Stikine, Fort Wrangell, Alaska, a Tlingit area, to catalogue card.
label: Notes
content: Notes from Glen Wood, Tsimshian artist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 8/14/1983: "Is not Haida - The Haida lived in an area w/out mts., without mt. goats or sheep, and therefore without horn bowls. The Tsimshian and Tlingit people had these, unless the Haida carved this after obtaining it in trade."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska (not certain), United States, 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: 004730
label: USNM Number
content: E20856-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dish