HUNTING HAT
Alaska Peninsula
ca. 1825-1850
wood, marine mammal ivory, white, black and cobalt blue paint, human hair(?), falcon feathers (?), hide, organic fibres, old paper label
height: 9 ½”
length: 10 ¾”
Inventory # CE4081
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PROVENANCE
Reportedly collected by a US customs agent and amateur ethnologist, and passed down through his family in Upper New York State.
Related Examples
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Cat. No. 90444
See: Fitzhugh, William, Crowell, Aron. Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1988, pg. 164, pl. 202 and Black, Lydia T. Glory Remembered: Wooden Headgear of Alaska Sea Hunters. Juneau: Alaska State Museums, 1991, pg. 30, fig. 17
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Cat. No. 5434-493 – See: Ibid, pg. 62, fig 53 for and example collected at Bristol Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula
See Ibid, pg. 63 for a general discussion of truncated cone hat from the Alaska Peninsula
See Ibid, pgs. 163-165 for a list of known examples of this form of hat in museum collections