Paddles 2 Item Number: E260397-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Carved."Marked on paddles: Yakutat. Identified as Eskimo on catalogue card but appear more Northwest Coast style? Yakutat is home to a number of Tlingit people. Catalogue card identifies locality as Jackson (i.e Howkan), Alaska. Howkan was originally a Tlingit village, but later became a Kaigani Haida village sometime in the early eighteenth century.
Item History
- Made in Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U.S. Department Of Interior on January 27, 1910
What
- Name
- Paddles 2
- Identification Number
- E260397-0
- Type of Item
- paddle
Who
- Culture
- Eskimo ?, Tlingit ?, Haida and Kaigani ?
- Received from
- U.S. Department Of Interior
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on January 27, 1910
Other
- Accession Number
- 051115