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date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "... NO. 23439 - NOOTKA MASK - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 198; P. 635. NEG. NO. ... 86-11790." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESS.---BOX-SHAPED; MADE OF LIGHT WOOD, THE SIDES BEING CARVED AND PAINTED TO REPRESENT PROFILE OF HORSE'S HEAD JOINED AT NOSE AND WIDELY SEPARATED BEHIND. THE HOLE FOR TOP OF HEAD IS WELL BACK AND UNDERNEATH. WORN BY MAKAH INDIANS OF NEAH BAY IN THEIR DANCES. LENGTH, 22 INS. WIDTH, 11 INS. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, 1876. 23,439. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Neah Bay, Clallam County / Neah Bay, Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah (?)
label: Culture
content: Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005260
label: USNM Number
content: E23439-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask