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Flint and Steel11.694.9018

A hide sack with flint and steel inside it. The steel has a double curve form, thicker than usual. Pouch has a jagged edge that Sean Standing Bear (10/24/2000) thinks relates it to lightening.

Culture
Osage
Material
steel metal, chert stone, hide and string
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Pair of Child's Moccasins43.201.72a-b

These child's moccasins have the old style seam work typical of Cree. The beads go in two different directions, unusual. They have little trail dusters and are made all in one piece with one seam along the side.

Culture
Interior Salish, Crow and Cree
Material
smoked hide, bead and cut steel bead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Dagger1954.9.88 .2 1954.9.88 .3

Dagger with double-edged fluted blade and image of an octopus chiselled on the hilt.

Culture
Haida European
Material
steel metal, animal leather skin and pigment
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Spear Point1-1544
Fish Hook2.5E1576
Tobacco Pouch2439
Spear Point1-1612
Spear Point1-1603
Spear Point1-1534
Straight Adze4588

S'abadeb-Seattle Art Museum The fine-grained wood of the western red cedar was worked with few tools, but those that were used were ever efficient, like this straight adze made of elk antler. The carver's toolbox would include several types of adzes, wedges, straight-and crooked-bladed knives, and, later, metal blades, chisels, and saws. Before Natives had access to metal via salvage from oceangoing vessels or trade, adze blades were made from finely sharpened stone, and knives from shell or beaver teeth. The straight adze was employed on the southern Northwest Coast and along the Columbia River. Often there is a human or animal on the butt: here, it might be a mountain goat or an elk.

Culture
Southern Coast Salish, Chinook, Puget Sound and Lower Columbia River
Material
elk antler, steel metal and cloth
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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