Shell, Knife Item Number: E168352-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "FOR BASKET MAKING. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 12, NO. 10; P. 48."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 15 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Woman's knife of blue mussel shell used by women for basket making."Listed on page 114 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Jackknife".
Item History
- Made in Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Shell, Knife
- Identification Number
- E168352-0
- Type of Item
- knife
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072