Skin-Dresser Item Number: E168358-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "BONE. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; PL. 18, FIG. 3; P. 784." Identified there as 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 # 21 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)".
Item History
- Made in Klukwan, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Klukwan, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Skin-Dresser
- Identification Number
- E168358-0
- Type of Item
- scraper
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Chilkat
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072