Rattle of puffin beaks on a wooden hoop with bark strip.

Collection type: Object
Description: Rattle of puffin beaks on a wooden hoop with bark strip.
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska
Cultural groups: Tlingit
Person: Field collector George Thornton Emmons; PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1934
Date collected: By 1934
Acquisition information: Donated: 1934
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Puffin Beak Bird, Material Bark Wood Plant, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Bent
Dimensions: Diameter: max 191 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1954.9.162 Other numbers: Beasley No. E 43 1.2.1934
Research and responses: Beasley numbers probably refer to the date on which Beasley acquired an object. [CW 26/7/2000]
Emmons is probably George T. Emmons, an officer aboard the U.S.S. Adams and later the U.S.S. Pinta, who collected on the Northwest Coast for American museums from 1882 onwards. [CW 26/7/2000]
G. Heye is probably George Gustav Heye (1874-1957), whose collections form the cornerstone of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. [CW 27/7/2000]