Box Cover, Old
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Sep 1902
label: Collection Date
content: 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Half of an old box top, the front portion laid with the different teeth of a sea otter. Such pieces are very old and are greatly prized by the natives who upon occasions of ceremony and the distribution of property, present them to the more honored guests as gifts."
label: Notes
content: Emmons talks about this artifact in his letter of May 28, 1902, written from Victoria, B.C., filed in the accession file. He identifies it there as from the Blunden Harbor [sic] Kwakiutl.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039904
label: USNM Number
content: E217418-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box