Straw Hat Item Number: E72448-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OF 2 SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885.May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated they had a hat listed as old Smithsonian # 72443, Branly catalog number 71.1885.78.347. 72443 is not the correct number. It is possible this object is actually E72448, one of which is listed as having gone to the Trocadero Museum in 1885.
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1882
- Received on December 26, 1882
What
- Name
- Straw Hat
- Identification Number
- E72448-0
- Type of Item
- hat
Who
- 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 1882
- Acquisition Date
- on December 26, 1882
Other
- Accession Number
- 012214