Pendants

Museum number:
2-7174
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020007174
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Sinew (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pendants (jewelry)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
2.2
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Pendants, accession number 2-7174, described as Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Pendants, accession number 2-7174, described as Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 2-7174, described as Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 2-7174, described as Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 2-7174, described as Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 2-7174, described as Bone pendants, thirteen very flat pieces, cut in shapes similar to a puffin beak; pierced at one end; some decorated with incised crosshatching and lines; held together with a sinew string.

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