Killer Whale Effigy Amulet
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: Bone carved to represent a whale and decorated with abalone inlay and incised formline designs.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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, listed as number E9813B, http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=508, retrieved 4-24-2012: Amulet, Tsimshian. A shaman's amulets represented the guardian spirits that aided his work. Like his wooden rattles, crown of bear claws, dance apron, and red ocher face paint, bone and stone amulets were essential to his practice. This beautifully carved example represents a killer whale; its tail is a long-beaked bird.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haida
label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen)
label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen), Nass River
label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen), Nisga'a
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001763
label: USNM Number
content: E9813-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Amulet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9.5 cm
label: Width
content: 1 cm
label: Height
content: 6.5 cm