Wand, Animal Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jun 1903
label: Collection Date
content: 1903
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved in crouching position. Neat work. Teeth, eyes, nose and brow inlaid with abalone shell. Painted red. Short bands."
label: Notes
content: Though catalogued as #5 in the collection, and just assumed to be from Alaska, this object is actually #6 on the detailed list filed in the accession record. This list describes it as: "Ceremonial club, from Blunden Harbor [sic, this is Blunden Harbour, which is in British Columbia, Canada], the Kwakiutl tribe, the property of Chief Seaweid [a.k.a. Siwid or Seaweed]. It is carved as the head of a wolf, ornamentally painted and inlaid with haliotis shell. It was used to charm the salmon + halibut back or to bring them in the spring, or when they went fishing and failed to make a catch. A fire was built and they would take the halibut hook a[nd] char the end over the fire, and the club was used as a wand during the feast and dance."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 42 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 041221
label: USNM Number
content: E220187-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand