Bone Knife Carved Item Number: E74954-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card for 74954-5: "No. 74954 - Illus. in USNM [Annual] Rept, 1895; Pl. 18, fig. 2; p. 784. Identified there as bone skin dresser or skin dressing tool.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 Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Sgt. John J. McLean in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA during 1884
- Received on February 9, 1885
What
- Name
- Bone Knife Carved
- Identification Number
- E74954-0
- Type of Item
- knife
Who
- Field Collector
- Sgt. John J. McLean
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1884
- Acquisition Date
- on February 9, 1885
Other
- Accession Number
- 015716