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Kées (bracelet) with old style clasp and ch'áak' (eagle) design

PU 5126
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Information

Object Number
PU 5126
Medium
Silver
Dates

before 1886

Dimensions
2.7 × 6.7 × 6.3 cm (1 1/16 × 2 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
Tlingit
Credit Line
Lent by the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Place Collected

North America, Laaxaayík Kwáan (Yakutat)

Signatures
5126 written inside
Type
bracelets (jewelry), tourist trade, potlatches, silverwork
Subject
eagles, eagles
Materials
silver

Collected by Prof. William Libbey during Mount St. Elias Expedition in 1886; Given to E. M. Museum (Princeton Museum of Natural History), 1886

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2436114

Donald Baird, "Tlingit Treasure: How an Important Collection Came to Princeton," <em>Princeton Alumni Weekly</em>, vol. 65, no. 17 (Feb. 16, 1965a): 6-11.

1221 1965
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/603795

De Laguna, Frederica. <em>Under Mount Saint Elias: the history and culture of the Yakutat Tlingit. </em>vol. 7 of <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology </em>(Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972)., plate 135, p. 1052 (illus.)

758 1972

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