Wood Carving: Rattling Figure Item Number: E13099-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "13096-101. #13099 LOANED TO IAIA SANTA FE., NM 1 APRIL 1966. LOAN RETURNED NOV 28 1966."Carved wooden figure of a man sitting on a box. Rattles are inside the box. The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man on box", and thus possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
- Collected by James G. Swan in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
- Received during 1874
What
- Name
- Wood Carving: Rattling Figure
- Identification Number
- E13099-0
- Type of Item
- rattle
Who
- Culture
- Haida ? or Tlingit ?
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1874
Other
- Accession Number
- 003284