Wooden Carved Post Item Number: E10307-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Toward the base of this totem pole model (directly under the Smithsonian catalogue number), is the word/name "Ebits" (the S is backwards). This name is probably a reference to the Tlingit man named Chief Ebbets (a.k.a. Ebbetts, Ebitts ... ) (1780 - 1880) and his wife Aanseet (Chief of All Women) (1800-1870). This model pole resembles the full size Tongass pole, carved circa 1870 to honor Aanseet, and taken from Tongass in 1899 and erected in Pioneer Square in Seattle. (For information on the pole in Seattle see http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/loc/id/1357; http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=People-of-the-North&cat=Native-Lives-and-Traditions&viewpost=2&ContentId=2659; and Robin K. Wright: Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast, http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/wright.html ).
Item History
- Made in Tongass, Tongass Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. Franklin M. Ring in Tongass, Tongass Island, Alaska, USA
- Received during 1870
What
- Name
- Wooden Carved Post
- Identification Number
- E10307-0
- Type of Item
- crest column model
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Tongass
- Field Collector
- Lt. Franklin M. Ring
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Tongass, Tongass Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Tongass, Tongass Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1870
Other
- Accession Number
- 001763