Hat
NA11740
Location: On Display in the Native American Voices
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA11740 |
| Current Location | Native American Voices - On Display |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Spruce Root | Shell | Copper | Brass | Abalone | Ermine Fur | Hide | Pigment |
| Iconography | Frog |
| Description | Ceremonial hat representing the "Frog" crest. Carved from one piece of maple wood with a frog design over a conical hat base. Painted green, black, and red with white around the eyes. Ornamented with copper eyebrows, lips, feet, and hands and brass tacks along the sides and back. Blue abalone shell inlay is used for the eyes, teeth, and along two spots on the rear. Top-stock of four spruce root basketry rings painted green with an ermine pelt attached to the top ring. The basketry rings are attached to one another and to the hat with leather straps. |
| Length | 31 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 34 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1926 |
| Other Number | 113 - Other Number |
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