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Carved Bone Powder-MeasureE60191-0
Stone HammerE20878-0
Stone Pestle, CarvedE60112-0

Catalogue card lists as Hutsnuwu/Kootznahoo, but Anthropology catalogue ledger book does not list that people/locality for this artifact, only for 60111 and 60113.

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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White Horn Spoon, CarvedE60141-0

FROM CARD FOR E60135: "[From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "HORN SPOONS. BOWLS, MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE HANDLES ARE MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, IN CANADA, AND THROUGHOUT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE HORN OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP IS USED IN MAKING DOMESTIC UTENSILS. THE HORN OF THE GOAT ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO THE CARVER'S ART, AND BY THE TLINGIT INDIANS IS CARVED AND ENGRAVED TO REPRESENT TOTEMIC IDEAS." (NOTE: THIS LABEL APPLIES TO 60,135-60,141; 10,389)."

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Slave-KillerE127173-0

From card: "Bone carved. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 46, fig. 257; p. 320." Plate caption in USNM AR for 1888 identifies this as a "Slave-killer" "Made of bone. Carved to represent the beak of a raven. Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by E. B. Webster, U.S. Navy."

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Dance Fish StaffE221185-0

From card: "A staff of wood with brass cap, carved to represent [starting at brass cap] bear, raven, frog, scaled serpent."Emmons in the accession file identifies this as a fish dance staff. Though this was catalogued as from Killisnoo, Alaska, in a letter dated August 20, 1903 in the accession file Emmons notes among objects shipped from Juneau this object and identifies it further as "Dance wand or chiefs beating stick used to keep time to the dance song[;] is from the Stickheen [Stikine] qwan[;] on it is represented the bear, the raven, the frog and an eel like salt water fish."

Culture
Tlingit, Hutsnuwu ? and Stikine ?
Made in
Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Carved Wood Handle Of KnifeE60192-0