Dance Rattle "Ceco'q" Item Number: E9255-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "A BOX ENCLOSING PEBBLES OF CARVED WOOD, HAVING THE FORM OF A LONG CLAM, PARTLY OPEN WITH THE FLESH DRAWN BACK TOWARDS THE HINGE NEARLY HALF THE LENGTH OF THE SHELL. THE BOX IS FORMED IN THE FLESH PART."Listed on page 42 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".
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. Alexander H. Hoff in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA between 1867 and 1869
- Received from Army Medical Museum during 1870
What
- Name
- Dance Rattle "Ceco'q"
- Identification Number
- E9255-0
- Type of Item
- rattle
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Dr. Alexander H. Hoff
- Received from
- Army Medical Museum
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1867 and 1869
- Acquisition Date
- during 1870
Other
- Accession Number
- 001767