Boar's Tusks

Item number E74355-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated that an object with this number is in their collections, now as catalog number 71.1885.78.258. Anthropology does not have a record of when/how this artifact left the collections. The Branly identifies it as part of an 1885 accession presumably to the Trocadero Museum.