Dance headdress representing a beaver
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Tsimshian
- Collector
- Reverend Thomas Crosby, Non-Indian, 1840-1914
- Previous owner
- Reverend Thomas Crosby, Non-Indian, 1840-1914
- Seller/source
- Reverend Thomas Crosby, Non-Indian, 1840-1914
- Object Name
- Dance headdress representing a beaver
- Media/Materials
- Wood, copper alloy, hide thong/babiche, iron nails, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Dimensions
- 58 x 24 x 19 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- Native Term
- gayt
- Place
- Port Simpson (Fort Simpson); Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District; British Columbia; Canada
- Date created
- circa 1860
- Collection History
- Collected in 1875 by Reverend Thomas Crosby (1840-1914, an English missionary who worked with North Pacific Coast peoples from 1863 to about 1900); purchased by George Heye from Reverend Crosby in 1908.
- Catalog Number
- 1/8944
- Barcode
- 018944.000
- See related items
- Tsimshian
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement