Dog Fish-Polisher Item Number: E168341-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "SUBSTITUTE SAND PAPER. INVENTORIED 1980."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 4 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Piece of the skin of the dog fish ... from the work box of a Tlingit ... used as a substitute for sand paper in working down and polishing horn spoons, dishes and wood and bone carvings."
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Dog Fish-Polisher
- Identification Number
- E168341-0
- Type of Item
- smoother
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Sitka
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072