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Museum Expedition 1938, Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Museum Expedition 1938, Dick S. Ramsay Fund
FROM CARD: "IMPLEMENT OF WOOD, IN 2 SECTIONS."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 1 on list) appears to attribute this to the Auk Tlingit of Sinta-ka-heen-ee.
From card: "Two blocks of wood, one with a boss and the other a depression. The soft horn is pressed into shape between them."Emmons letter of April 17, 1901 in the accession file, lists as being part of this accession: "1 mould for spoon bowls of horn from Chilkat." It is unclear if Emmons means Chilkat the people or Chilkat the place (i.e. Klukwan?).Listed on page 50 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)".