Hunting Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Jan 1868
label: Collection Date
content: 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. William A. Howard
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. William A. Howard
notes: label: Notes
content: Provenience note: collection locality of Sitka appears to have been erroneously attached to a number of the objects in the Howard collection. It appears the majority of the objects were probably instead collected in Unalaska/Aleutians (and some in St. Paul/Kodiak, Kodiak Island.)
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=18, retrieved 5-7-2014: Hunting hat. Classic hunting hats were painted with fine lines, "sand dollar" designs, swirls, rosettes, and leaves, using pigments made from plants and minerals. Long whiskers from bull sea lions were added in back. Only the most highly respected men - chiefs, whalers, and dauntless hunters - could wear the hats. This hat, which was acquired before 1868, is among the oldest in the Smithsonian collections. It is brightly painted with red, black, and blue-green bands, round rosettes, and petal-shaped figures. Sea lion whiskers are attached to the carved ivory back plate. An old repair - a split sewn back together with sinew thread - can be seen on one side.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Unalaska Island (not certain) / Unalaska (not certain), Aleutian Islands (not certain) / Unalaska Quad (not certain) / Fox Islands (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001161
label: USNM Number
content: E5772-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat