Engraved Silver Bracelets Item Number: E19530-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (4).---SILVER BANDS, 1 1/4 TO 1 1/2 INCHES BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS, AND FITTED WITH HOOK AND EYE CLASPS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,530, 19,531, 19,532, 19,533. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. THE EXTERIORS ARE ENGRAVED, SUCCESSIVELY, WITH RUDE [SIC] NATIVE IMAGES OF THE FOUR TOTEMS OF THE THLINKET INDIANS, VIZ., THE WHALE THE RAVEN (YEHL), THE WOLF (KHAN UKH), AND THE EAGLE (CHETHL') THE LATTER BEING ACCOMPANIED BY A RUDE REPRESENTATION OF AN AMERICAN HALF-DOLLAR COIN. SITKA INDIANS."Linda Wynne and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this bracelet features two killer whales sharing one dorsal fin.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Alaska, USA during 1875
- Received during 1875
What
- Name
- Engraved Silver Bracelets
- Identification Number
- E19530-0
- Type of Item
- bracelet
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1875
Other
- Accession Number
- 004523