Sinew For Dressing Hair Item Number: E7780-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "USED IN DRESSING THE HAIR A LA CHIGNON. HEAD-DRESS: BUNCHES OR "SWITCHES" OF ANIMAL FIBER USED IN DRESSING THE HAIR. WORN BY ESKIMO WOMEN, FORT ANDERSON, MACKENZIE RIVER."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/16 , retrieved 2-11-2020: Sinew for dressing hair. This is a bundle of sinew that has a tag identifying it as being used 'in dressing the hair a la chignon' (in a topknot).
Item History
- Made in Fort Anderson, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in Fort Anderson, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Received from Roderick R. MacFarlane on January 7, 1869
What
- Name
- Sinew For Dressing Hair
- Identification Number
- E7780-0
- Type of Item
- line
Who
- Culture
- Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
- Received from
- Roderick R. MacFarlane
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Fort Anderson, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in
- Fort Anderson, Northwest Territories, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on January 7, 1869
Other
- Accession Number
- 69A00012