Carved Ornaments For Girls' Heads etc.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XXV-2; P. 68. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 60. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.358, P.263. INVENTORIED 1975. 37,745. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73." Crossroads of Continents catalogue identifies: "Bering Sea Eskimo. Concepts of transformation and masking, so pervasive in Bering Sea Eskimo belief, were illustrated on women's jewelry. A masked semihuman tunghak decorates this hair ornament .... Belief in the mutability of the physical and the spiritual, of multiple worlds and realities in constant transformation, was the basis for highly creative Bering Sea Eskimo art."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Konigunuaumut, Kuskokwim Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37745-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Ornament