Models Of Seal Skin Floats With Spearpoints
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1866
label: Collection Date
content: 1866
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOODEN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HARPOONS, LINES, AND FLOATS (3 MODELS).-HARPOON-HEADS HAVE COPPER BLADES, WITH IVORY WINGS OR BARBS; LINES, MADE OF TWISTED FIBER, SERVED WITH TWINE; FLOATS, WOOD CARVED IN IMITATION OF SEALSKIN BUOYS. MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS. NEAH BAY, WASHINGTON TER. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book notes that part of this object was exchanged with Trocadero Museum, July 1885.
label: Notes
content: See Cat. 94 p. 188 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.224, one wooden float model with harpoon line, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E4131.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Dec 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Neah Bay, Clallam County / Neah Bay, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000886
label: USNM Number
content: E4131-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Harpoon / Float