Iron Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1870
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Franklin M. Ring
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. Franklin M. Ring
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PlL VI, FIG. 11, P. 260. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENT CATALOGUE; FIG. 62, P.60. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as an iron ornament formed into bifurcated scrolls, and notes that his motif was popular on Athabaskan knife handles. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABLE WITH CARD: "HAIR ORNAMENT.--MADE OF STEEL, HIGHLY POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. THIS FORM IS VERY ANCIENT AND VALUED AT ONE OR TWO SLAVES. WORN BY YOUNG GIRLS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), NASS R., B. C. 10,313. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. F. W. RING, U. S. A. [sic, this should be Lt. F. M. Ring]. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nass River, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen), Nass River
label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen), Nisga'a (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001763
label: USNM Number
content: E10313-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Ornament