Object Details
- Culture/People
- Haida
- Collector
- Reverend Thomas Crosby, Non-Indian, 1840-1914
- Previous owner
- Reverend Thomas Crosby, Non-Indian, 1840-1914
- Collection History
- Collected by Reverend Thomas Crosby (1840-1914, an English missionary who worked with North Pacific Coast peoples from 1863 to about 1900), possibly during his time at Fort Simpson/Port Simpson, British Columbia (1874-1897); purchased by George Heye from Reverend Crosby in 1908.
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- Date created
- circa 1850
- Catalog Number
- 1/8027
- Barcode
- 018027.000
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- Object Name
- Shaman's rattle (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Wood, paint, cotton cloth, spruce root, twine/string
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, painted, aboriginally repaired
- Dimensions
- 31 x 14 cm
- Place
- Clue (Tanu, Tlanú, Kloo); Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District; British Columbia; Canada
- Archipelago
- Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii)
- Island Name
- Tanu Island
- See related items
- Haida
- Ceremonial/Ritual items: Shamanic objects
- On View
- National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_19128
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws60556be7f-8586-4fb9-86c7-468b32fbda28
