Collection Name	Ethnology
Identifier	SJ-I-B-50
Title	Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood.
Description	Description: wood; carved; abalone; inset; painted Descriptive Narrative: Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood. The slightly rectangular back plaque is convex vertically and concave horizontally. The face of a young woman is carved in high relief in the central part of the rectangle. The face is bordered on the sides and top by rectangular pieces of abalone shell set in a red painted bordered. The area between the inlay and the face is painted blue (Rickett's laundry bluing ?) The face has hair, eyebrows and eye orb outline painted black with red painted lips. On the forehead is a cross of inlaid abalone shell, across the nose and on the face's right cheek is a slanted line of abalone inlay and on the left cheek is abalone inlay of intersecting lines. The pupils of the eyes are circles of inlaid abalone inlay. At the inner corner of the left eye is an area where the carver cut through leaving a slightly crescentric hole. There are a number of abalone inlays missing. The adhesive appears to have been a hide glue and red sealing wax. The frontlet was tied to its headdress framework through pairs of holes in the back plaque under the chin and on either side approximately where the ears would be. Old Num: acc. 287g; GA63-7.13 Dimensions: L: 7 in, W: 6 3/16 in
Subject.TGM	Sculpture
Subject.LCSH	Regalia Haida sculpture
Subject.Local	Alaska Natives--Southeast Alaska--Haida Ethnotechnology
Region	Southeast Alaska
Type	Physical Object
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Holding Institution	Sheldon Jackson Museum; 104 College Drive, Sitka, AK 99835-7657; Phone: (907) 747-8981 Fax: (907) 747-3004 ; mailto:rosemary_carlton@eed.state.ak.us
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Headdress frontlet carved in a close grained hard wood.

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