Awl Item Number: E168349-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
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)".
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Awl
- Identification Number
- E168349-0
- Type of Item
- awl
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Sitka
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072