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FROM CARD: "BIRD'S SKIN."
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. 1 GIFT ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INST., FEB. 14, 1903."
Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 6 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Stone for sharpening carving knives ... used to give first edge to knives."
FROM CARD: "43234-6. # 43235-SANDSTONE."
FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S. SEWING. IVORY HANDLE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 12 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Woman's awl ... Handle of ivory and pricker of steel. This awl is used by the women in all sewing of skins, furs ... the hole is made with the awl and the pointed thread is stuck through."Listed on page 48 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)".