Mosquito brooch/pin
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Tlingit
- Artist/Maker
- Lincoln Wallace, Tlingit/Tsimshian (Ts’msyen), 1919-1991
- IACB source
- Lincoln Wallace, Tlingit/Tsimshian (Ts’msyen), 1919-1991
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the artist in 1965 while he was employed during IACB arts and crafts workshops at Sitka, Alaska; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1965
- Catalog Number
- 25/6810
- Barcode
- 256810.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Mosquito brooch/pin
- Media/Materials
- Jade , metal jewelry findings
- Techniques
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 4.6 x 3.5 x 1 cm
- Place
- Sitka; Sealaska Native Corporation; Alaska; USA (inferred)
- Archipelago
- Alexander Archipelago
- Island Name
- Baranof Island
- See related items
- Tlingit
- Adornment/Jewelry
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_272693
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws69b58fa88-e35f-4bd0-a91e-93fb20ffc3fb
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