Whetstone Item Number: E168344-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "BEAR'S JAW AND TUSKS."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 7 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Bear's jaw ... used to give the fine edge to carving knives after they had undergone sharpening on? the whetstone. The edge is drawn on the tusks."
Item History
- Made in Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Whetstone
- Identification Number
- E168344-0
- Type of Item
- whetstone
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
- Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072