Stencil Item Number: E168361-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "WOOD."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 25 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Stencil of wood for stamping face for festival or ceremonial occasions for either men or women ... carved to represent a birds wing and eye."Listed on page 47 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)".
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Stencil
- Identification Number
- E168361-0
- Type of Item
- stencil
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Sitka
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072