Stone Seal Item Number: E127612-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Accession record describes this object as the "stone image of a seal, worn and used by a Thlinket Indian of Sitka as a head-scratcher."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)".
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Edwin B. Webster in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on December 14, 1886
What
- Name
- Stone Seal
- Identification Number
- E127612-0
- Type of Item
- figure
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Edwin B. Webster
- 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 December 14, 1886
Other
- Accession Number
- 018397