Earrings (2), Rings (4)
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: "INVENTORIED 1974."
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=654, retrieved 8-22-2012: Earrings and rings, Athabascan, mouth of Copper River, Alaska. Eyak men and women painted their faces and wore earrings, nose ornaments, finger rings, and bracelets made of native copper or silver. U.S. coins were the main source of silver used for jewelry.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Both earrings (2) and only 2 of 4 rings on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Odiak (Eyak?), Copper River (Near Mouth), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan) (?)
label: Culture
content: Eyak (dAXunhyuu) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168636-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring / Ring