Neck Ring
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Jan 1905
label: Collection Date
content: 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Roll of native woven s[t]uff covered with windings of bark cord in two shades forming triangular figures. Pendant band of cords at the back."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=666, retrieved 3-31-2012: Neck Ring. Tsimshian celebrants danced in cedar-bark rings, imitating the dress and actions of beings who were described in the origin story of each secret society. Bark rings were hung outside on the houses where ceremonies were in progress, to warn away the uninitiated. This ring consists of several crossed layers of twisted bark cord wrapped around wool; the sash is made of twisted bark cords, each ending in a knot and tassel.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043830
label: USNM Number
content: E233456-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Neckring
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 40 cm