Bone Pin - Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1938
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Bear's head linked with carved pin 1 1/2" long."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 11c, p. 27 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. Identified there as a chain-link carving.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 74 p. 72 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there: "Prehistoric Aleut ... bear-whale amulet".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Amaknak Island, Unalaska Quad / Aleutian Islands / Fox Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 149653
label: USNM Number
content: A395757-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pin