Paper Placemats from Code Talkers memorial potlatch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Apr 2018
label: Collection Date
content: 1 Sep 2007 to 2 Sep 2007
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harold Jacobs
notes: label: Notes
content: Three printed paper placemats. Blue background, with a photo of Mark Jacobs, Jr., killer whale clan symbols, and the words "Dakl'aweidi Memorial - September 1 & 2, 2007 - Sitka, Alaska"
label: Notes
content: This place mat is representative of the kinds of items provided at place settings for Tlingit memorial potlatches. This one as used at the potlatch of Mark Jacobs in 2007. It shows a photo of Jacobs wearing the NMNH Killer Whale Dakl'aweidi clan hat (formerly NMNH catalog number E230063) on January 2, 2005, when it was repatriated to him in a Sitka hospital. The two killer whale images on either side of his photo are the killer whales on Mark's clan house in Angoon; commonly called the "Killer Whales facing away house". This item shows how imagery at memorial potlatches honor the individual memorialized as well as their clan crest connections through their crest symbols."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2078919
label: USNM Number
content: E435527-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Placemat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Placemat
content: 43 cm
label: Width - Placemat
content: 28 cm