Earrings (No image available)
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Tsimshian
- Collector
- George Thornton Emmons (George T. Emmons/G.T. Emmons), Non-Indian, 1852-1945
- Previous owner
- George Thornton Emmons (George T. Emmons/G.T. Emmons), Non-Indian, 1852-1945
- Seller
- George Thornton Emmons (George T. Emmons/G.T. Emmons), Non-Indian, 1852-1945
- Object Name
- Earrings (No image available)
- Media/Materials
- Abalone/Haliotis shell
- Techniques
- Cut
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Place
- Port Simpson (Fort Simpson); North Coast Regional District (Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District); British Columbia; Canada
- Collection History
- Collected by Lieutenant George T. Emmons (1852-1945, US Navy 1881-1899) at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from George T. Emmons in 1928.
- Catalog Number
- 15/8970
- Barcode
- 158970.000
- See related items
- Tsimshian
- Adornment/Jewelry
- 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