Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Feb 1894
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HORN. FOR GUN CAPS." Illus. Fig. 167, p. 171 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press. Identified there: "Gun cap box. The Alutiit increasingly used guns after the 1860s. Flintlock muskets were eventually replaced by muzzle-loaded percussion guns, which used small metal caps to ignite the gunpowder charge in the barrel. This horn box held a supply of the caps, which were valuable trade items."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hinchinbrook Island / Nutshuk (Nuchek), Prince William Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Chugach
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168630-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gun Cap Box
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8.5 cm