Argillite Figure "Sea-Captain"
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ELABORATELY CARVED OF BLACK CLAY SLATE; THE FIGURE, PRESUMABLY OF A SEA CAPTAIN, DRESSED IN A FORMAL FROCKCOAT, WITH A VISORED CAP. THE FACE IS CARVED OF IVORY AND FASTENED INTO THE SLATE HEAD. *THIS NUMBER IS LISTED IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOGUE BOOKS AS BEING A SLATE PIPE. HOWEVER, IT IS TO BE USED FOR THIS SPECIMEN. HEAD BROKEN OFF; CAP BROKEN: REPAIRED, 3/13/51 RAEJR. RE-REPAIRED JULY, 1974. REPRODUCED BY ALVA STUDIO, OCTOBER, 1974."
label: Notes
content: Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Object was entered into the Anthropology catalogue ledger book January 5, 1867. Per Jane Walsh, the argillite figure of a sea captain doesn't appear on any of the U. S. Exploring Expedition official lists of objects. Also, the U. S. Exploring Expedition only collected argillite pipes, and one argillite figure, a woman that we no longer have in the collections. The only thing we really know about the two captain figures (other one - formerly E2414 - is now in The National Museum of Denmark collections) is that they came into the SI in the 40 cart loads of material from the "Government Collections" in the Patent Office in 1858. So it could be they are from the National Institute, or from the War Department, or it might be that they were collected for Spencer Baird by James G. Swan.
label: Notes
content: Per Stephen Loring, this sea captain figure probably depicts a Yankee sea-captain or so-called "Boston Man."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada, 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: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E2413-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure