File:Raven helmet of K'alyaan in the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, circa 1906 (AL+CA 887).jpg

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English: Raven helmet of K'alyaan in the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, circa 1906   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Shaw, William T. (William Thomas), b.
Title
English: Raven helmet of K'alyaan in the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, circa 1906
Description
English:

Carved war bonnet worn by K'alyaan (Katlean, Katlian), battle leader of the Kiks.adi clan of the Tlingit Indians. The Kiks.adi Tlingit, along with members of other clans at Sitka, defended their homeland against Russian colonization in a battle at Indian River in October of 1804. The helmet was brought to the Sheldon Jackson Museum in 1905 following the last Potlatch of 1904, by the man who also has the name K'alyaan and several other clan men. He handed the helmet to Gov. John G. Brady saying this was a symbol of "giving up the ol time". The piece of cloth in the bill is no longer there, but was described in the Minutes to the Alaska Society of Natural History and Ethnology in Nov. 1901 as a "strip of red flannel in the beak".

The photograph above is in the University of Washington Collection Archives; the war helmet is in the collection of the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, Alaska.

PH Coll 587.8

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Helmets; Tlingit Indians--Clothing & dress--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Arts & crafts--Alaska; Ceremonial objects
Depicted place Sitka, Alaska
Date circa 1906
date QS:P571,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
887
Source
English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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