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1954.9.100

Wooden rattle, carved as a bird, with two men wrestling and a [?]mountain goat's head.

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1954.9.100

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden rattle, carved as a bird, with two men wrestling and a [?]mountain goat's head.
Geographical reference
United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America
SE Alaska Kootznahoo Harbour Admiralty Island Kootz-Ah-Ta Angooan village
Cultural groups
Tlingit
Hutsnuwu
Person
Field collector George Thornton Emmons
PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1934
Date collected
By 1934
Acquisition information
Donated: 1954
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bird Feather, Process Carved, Process Decorated, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 348 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1954.9.100 Other numbers: Beasley No. E 67 1.2.1934.
Research and responses

This object was viewed by Haida tribal members Vincent Collison, Lucille Bell, and Kwiiawah Jones on 7 September 2007 in preparation for a planned Haida community visit to PRM in 2009. **The group agreed with the attribution of this object as Tlingit. [L Peers, 24/01/2008]

According to the Handbook of North American Indians (volume 7: Northwest Coast, p. 203), the Angoon are now known as the Hutsnuwu, and are a group of Northern Tlingit. [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]

Search terms: Music, Religion, Figure, Ritual and Ceremonial, Vessel, Death, Musical Instrument, Animal Figure, Grave Good, Bird Figure, Fish Figure, Rattle

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