Painting-Stick (2) Item Number: E168362-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "FOR THE FACE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 26 on list) appears to attribute this to the HoonahTlingit of "Khart-heene"? [speculatively, possibly a version of one of the place names Karheen???] List also identifies object as "Pattern sticks or stencils for marking face for festival or ceremonial occasions ... the stick is laid on the face and the color is applied around it."Listed on page 47 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 Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Painting-Stick (2)
- Identification Number
- E168362-0
- Type of Item
- paint stick
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Hoonah
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072