Silver Bracelets
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "20251B-- 3.4 cm wide bear design. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, pl. 8, fig. 30 [and 32], p. 260. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21, 1993. Illus. Also in Crossroads of Continents catalogue: 20251b, fig. 432, p. 304." Crossroads caption identifies: "Khoots, the grizzly bear, a crest of the Raven moiety ... He has a skeletized back and perforated (or joint-marked) paws and tail rendered in the split form that allows both sides of an animal to be shown on a two-dimensional surface. ... When silver coins came into common use in the mid-19th century, they were hammered into bracelet form ..."
label: Notes
content: The original Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20251 as one pair of silver bracelets made by Geneskelos. However, at least since1888 there appear to have been 3 bracelets with catalogue number E20251: E20251-0 (20251A) a bear design bracelet; E20251-1 (20251B) a bear design bracelet decorated in a different style than E20251-0; E20251-2 (20251C) an eagle or thunderbird design bracelet decorated in the same style as E20251-0. Per Robin K. Wright and Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, E20251-0 and E20251-2 appear to have been made by Geneskelos. Wright and Bunn-Marcuse doubt that Geneskelos made E20251-1. E20251-0 is Fig. 39, E20251-1 is Fig. 41 and E20251-2 is Fig. 40, all on p. 68 of Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004669
label: USNM Number
content: E20251-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 5.71 cm
label: Width - , Of Band
content: 3 cm
label: Width - , Of Band
content: 3.17 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.4 cm