Mat Item Number: E260733-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Woven cedar bark."A label glued on to this object says "David Dan [presumably maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town. Based on this locality, the object could be Haida rather than Tlingit?Listed on page 51 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 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
- Mat
- Identification Number
- E260733-0
- Type of Item
- mat
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ? or Haida ?
- 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