Necklace

Museum number:
2-5297
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005297
Alternate number:
3286 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13
Description:
With bone drinking tube, comb, and moose sinew.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Head of Kotzebue Sound, Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kotzebue Sound; Head of Kotzebue Sound
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Alces alces
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Used by girl at puberty ceremony for drinking, combing, and rubbing gums.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Photo: 15-4352.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-5297, described as With bone drinking tube, comb, and moose sinew.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-5297, described as With bone drinking tube, comb, and moose sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-5297, described as With bone drinking tube, comb, and moose sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-5297, described as With bone drinking tube, comb, and moose sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-5297, described as With bone drinking tube, comb, and moose sinew.

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