Object Details
Collector
James G. Swan
Donor Name
James G. Swan
Notes
Florence Sheakley, elder, Virginia Oliver, and Ruth Demmert, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This object could be brought out at certain times as at.oow (clan property), but was not necessarily always used as at.oow. The designs on this object do not necessarily reflect clan affiliations, as that trend occurred later on. People often carved their own materials to designate they created them.
Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
Record Last Modified
23 Aug 2021
Specimen Count
1
Culture
Tlingit
Accession Date
1876
Collection Date
1875
Accession Number
004730
USNM Number
E20734-0
Object Type
Dish
Place
Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
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Data Source
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
Topic
Ethnology
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmnhanthropology_8358124