Wooden Carved Post
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: Toward the base of this totem pole model (directly under the Smithsonian catalogue number), is the word/name "Ebits" (the S is backwards). This name is probably a reference to the Tlingit man named Chief Ebbets (a.k.a. Ebbetts, Ebitts ... ) (1780 - 1880) and his wife Aanseet (Chief of All Women) (1800-1870). This model pole resembles the full size Tongass pole, carved circa 1870 to honor Aanseet, and taken from Tongass in 1899 and erected in Pioneer Square in Seattle. (For information on the pole in Seattle see http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/loc/id/1357; http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=People-of-the-North&cat=Native-Lives-and-Traditions&viewpost=2&ContentId=2659; and Robin K. Wright: Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast, http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/wright.html ).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tongass Island / Tongass, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Tongass
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: E10307-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Crest Column Model