• Results (114)
  • Search

Item Search

The item search helps you look through the thousands of items on the RRN and find exactly what you’re after. We’ve split the search into two parts, Results, and Search Filters. You’re in the results section right now. You can still perform “Quick searches” from the menu bar, but if you’re new to the RRN, click the Search tab above and use the exploratory search.

View Tutorial

Log In to see more items.

Wooden Halibut Float, Carved, DuckE60187-0
Wooden Halibut Float, Carved, Sea OtterE60184-0

Originally catalogued as carved in the form of a seal, but reidentified as representing a sea otter by Stephen Loring in 2007. Otters typically float on their backs with hands together like this.

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
View Item Record
Wooden Dish, Large, Carved InlaidE60159-0
Bark Rope Dancing BeltE60225-0
BasketE20847-0

FROM CARD: "UNFINISHED WITH SPOONS, DOLLS & C OF A CHILD."This unfinished basket, identified as Hutsnuwu Tlingit, is Swan original # 68. Ledger book indicates that Catalogue #s E20906, E20907, and E20908 are also original #68. Accession record entry indicates the basket # E20847 contained these toy spoons, dolls, and dish (E20906 - 8), therefore all these objects are being stored together.

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
View Item Record
Stone Charms, CarvedE60127-0
Stone For Sharpening-StoneE168343-0

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 6 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Stone for sharpening carving knives ... used to give first edge to knives."

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
View Item Record
Knife With Carved Bone Handle, And SheathE60188-0
Stone Charms, CarvedE60128-0
Carved Wooden Pipe, Bear Holding Bird In MouthE60198-0

The Anthropology catalogue ledger book identified this pipe as carved in the form of a bear holding a bird in its mouth. The word "bird" was mistranscribed as "birch", on the typed catalogue card.

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
View Item Record