Smoothing-Stone Item Number: E60115-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "STONE DUCK USED IN SMOOTHING SKINS. "60115. ALASKA. J.J. MCCLEAN." WRITTEN ON BACK OF SPECIMEN WITH WHITE ENAMEL. REMOVED BY CONSERVATION LAB 4/30/1974."Provenience note: "Kootznahoo" was typed on catalogue card as though it were the Tlingit name for the artifact, but Kootznahoo is a place name, and the Anthropology catalogue ledger book entry for this artifact indicates that is what it should be as well.
Item History
- Made in Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ? during 1881
- Received on June 23, 1882
What
- Name
- Smoothing-Stone
- Identification Number
- E60115-0
- Type of Item
- polishing stone
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
- Collected in
- Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
When
- Collection Date
- during 1881
- Acquisition Date
- on June 23, 1882
Other
- Accession Number
- 011616