Stone Mortar For Grinding Paint For Tattooing Item Number: E88903-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "For paint, Lignite is ground with salmon eggs. For tattooing, ground with water." Neg. #2005-22350 is photo of this mortar with lignite paint Catalogue No. E88904.Listed on page 50 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)". Listed under incorrect number 89013.
Item History
- Made in Masset, British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by James G. Swan in Masset, British Columbia, Canada during July 1883
- Received on December 21, 1883
What
- Name
- Stone Mortar For Grinding Paint For Tattooing
- Identification Number
- E88903-0
- Type of Item
- mortar
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Masset, British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- Masset, British Columbia, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during July 1883
- Acquisition Date
- on December 21, 1883
Other
- Accession Number
- 013804