Stone Pile Driver Item Number: E222031-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "A circular stone, 2 in. thick with cavities for the fingers. Used in driving stakes to support the weirs for eulachon water game."This object has a glued on label on one side from "[B.] C. & Alaska Indian Bazaar. 43 Johnson Street, Victoria, B.C. [Canada]", from which Emmons presumably purchased it. Also, carving on one side resembles a frowning face.Listed on page 49 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)".
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in British Columbia, Canada during 1903
- Received on September 9, 1903
What
- Name
- Stone Pile Driver
- Identification Number
- E222031-0
- Type of Item
- pile driver
Who
- Culture
- Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Haisla and Kitamaat
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1903
- Acquisition Date
- on September 9, 1903
Other
- Accession Number
- 041495