Engraved Silver Bracelet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
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: "INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELET.---HAMMERED OUT FROM A SILVER COIN AND ORNAMENTED WITH SCROLL WORK. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,539. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THE TOOLS USED IN MAKING THESE BRACELETS ARE OF THE MOST PRIMITIVE [SIC] KIND, CONSISTING OF A HAMMER, COLD CHISEL, AND A SHARP STEEL CARVING TOOL. ON THE LARGER BRACELETS THE TOTEMIC DESIGN OF THE WEARER IS USUALLY CARVED." FROM CARD: 19539-19540. #19539 (TLINGIT) - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 8, FIG. 27, P. 260. SILVER BRACELETS ALSO BEAR THESE NUMBERS & ARE ON ONE CARD COVERING 19530-46."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004523
label: USNM Number
content: E19539-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet