Paint Brushes Item Number: E49207-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists 1 brush with this number as having been exchanged with the Trocadero Museum July 1885. Listed on page 46 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)".In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated they had a paint brush listed as old Smithsonian # 49207, Branly catalog number 71.1885.78.70, though this object is currently missing.
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1881
- Received on December 10, 1881
What
- Name
- Paint Brushes
- Identification Number
- E49207-0
- Type of Item
- brush
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
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
- during 1881
- Acquisition Date
- on December 10, 1881
Other
- Accession Number
- 010803