Carved Box For Fishing Tackle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "24346-50. 24346 REPRESENTS A SEAL CARRYING A YOUNG ONE ON HIS BACK. NO. 24350 SENT AS A GIFT TO PUBLIC MUSEUM, HARRIMAN, TENN., MAR. 14, 1924. #24347 - ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; P1. LXII-11; P.158. #24347: ILLUS. HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, FIG. 9, PG. 294. 24347: BOX CARVED TO REPRESENT A SEAL, WITH EYES OF WHITE BEADS. THE BOX LID REPRESENTS ANOTHER SEAL, WITH EYES OF RED BEADS. THERE IS RED STAIN AT THE HEAD AND FLIPPERS, GREEN ON THE BODY, AND ONE WHITE BEAD INSET ON THE BOTTOM. 24350--ILLUSTRATED: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.445, P. 308."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 32 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Norton Sound, 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: 76A00100
label: USNM Number
content: E24347-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box