Collector:

Lt. George T. Emmons  Search this

Donor Name:

U. S. Department of the Navy  Search this

Culture:

Tlingit, Chilkat  Search this

Object Type:

Knife

Place:

Klukwan, Alaska, United States, North America

Accession Date:

17 Apr 1894

Notes:

FROM CARD: "BONE, SKIN DRESSER."

Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely # 20 on the list.

Listed on page 47 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

Record Last Modified:

16 Oct 2020

Specimen Count:

1

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

028072

USNM Number:

E168357-0

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Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f9a30ec4-65ad-4f83-b47c-c3c411ec5127

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8348510