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This Song is a Museum2932/3

Round drum with cream coloured hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured with thick hide ties at the back which are looped through a hide circle. The front of the drum is decorated with black ink around the edges with four roughly ovular black ink shapes at the centre. At the centre of the back, in the circle, the hide ties are braided into a cross shape and a black string is attached for hanging.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
deer skin, pine wood, ink and fibre
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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This Song is a Museum2932/1

Octagonal drum with hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured with sinew. The sinew is threaded through the edges of the hide at the back and pulled to the centre. There is an abstract, black, paint splash pattern at the centre of the drum surrounded by many small spots of black. A black elastic string is tied to two of the sinew lines at the back.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
elk skin, wood, sinew, adhesive and ink
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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This Song is a Museum2932/5

Round drum with elk hide stretched over a wooden frame, pulled over the sides and secured at the back with fifteen hide ties. There are black and gray ink splash patterns on the face of the drum. There is a large translucent section near the edge. The ties are gathered in a Y shape at the centre of the back. A black string is tied to two of the hide strips on the back, for hanging.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
elk skin, oak wood, ink, adhesive and fibre
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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This Song is a Museum2932/2

Circular drum with hide stretched over a wooden frame and secured at the back with thin hide ties which are gathered in a cross pattern at the centre. There is a large, black, triangular-like splash pattern on the top of the drum, with many spatter marks. There is a black rectangular stamp on the outside of the wooden frame. A black string is tied to two of the hide strips on the back, for hanging.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
elk skin, oak wood, ink and fibre
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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This Song is a Museum: The ndn artist's paintbrush2932/6

Wooden drumstick with a heavily beaded handle, with a white fur tip. The shaft is decorated with tightly packed rows of small clear plastic beads, with the base of the handle covered in rawhide, wrapped with sinew. The top half of the fur tip has been darkened with black ink. There is a circular metal loop screwed into the end of the handle.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
diamond willow wood, plastic, rabbit skin, rawhide skin, sinew, ink, fibre and metal
Made in
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dutch Eagle Hat2929/1

Knitted orange toque with a Tahltan logo in black and white, called the "Dutch Eagle" design. Printing on hat in a rectangular label says: "NOC * NSF Olympic Team The Netherlands Vancouver 2010". Embroidered on the back of the hat is "Asics" and the Asics logo. A black lining is inside lower edge with Asics label attached. Manufacturer's information label inside.

Culture
Tahltan
Material
acrylic fibre
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gambling-Sticks And CaseE358336-0

Culture
Tahltan ? or Tlingit ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Dance Apron - Shaman's Blanket Waist RobeE224417-0

FROM CARD: "LOAN LOWIE MUSEUM 12/31/1964, LOAN RETURNED FEB 15, 1966. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987, LOAN RETURNED NOV 25, 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N16, P. 136." Illus. Fig. 8, p. 28, and Fig. H, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. There is a photo of this object on display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Negative No. 16465. See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_010 .Emmons' handwritten list in accession file describes this object in this way: "No. 9. "Kate" - A Chilkat blanket waist robe which was found in the possession of an old shaman of the "Tahltan" people living at Tahltan 100 miles up the Stickheen [Stikine] River from its mouth. It was originally made at Chilkat (the village of Kluckwan) [a.k.a. Klukwan] and was carried in trade to Wrangel [Wrangell] + traded up the river. The design represents a beaver sitting up [,] it is both realistic and conventional, the leather fringe is hung with the upper + lower bills of the sea parrot or puffin. It was the only piece of clothing worn by the shaman in his practice."Fringe includes pendant puffin beaks and thimbles.

Culture
Tlingit, Chilkat and Tahltan
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Buckskin Moccasins, BeadedE175230-0

Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=272 , retrieved 8-12-2011, and also Dr. Aron Crowell, 3-19-2010: Moccasins Athabascan-style moccasins with Interior Tlingit or Tahltan beaded designs. Moccasins had originally been attributed as possibly Athabascan, but Athabascan advisers for the Arctic Studies Center exhibit "Sharing Knowledge: Alaska Native Peoples and the Smithsonian Collections" at the Anchorage Museum, did not recognize the beading style, and art historian Kate Duncan identified them as Interior Tlingit or Tahltan, based on their style of beading and shape - including high wool cloth cuffs and squared-off toes. Collector Herbert G. Ogden of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey purchased them at the coastal Tlingit village of Klukwan before 1895, a reminder of the extensive Tlingit trade with interior peoples that took place through Klukwan and the Chilkat River valley. Tlingit leaders dressed in Athabascan caribou-skin clothing and moccasins, and coastal clans adopted songs and dances from their interior trading partners. The letter of transfer in the accession file for the collection, dated August 1, 1895, states that items were "collected among the Alaskan Indians on Chilkat river".This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.

Culture
Tlingit ? or Tahltan ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Gambling Sticks And CaseE230019-0

From card: "Gambling Sticks in caribou case (double pocket) from Tahltan - the Tahltan people of the upper Stikine River where the Tahltan River joins it. Illus. in: Hndbook. of N. Amer. Indian, Vol. 6, Subarctic, Fig. 17, pg. 386." Identified as Tahltan in Handbook illustration caption.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=665, retrieved 8-23-2012: Gambling sticks and pouch, Tahltan Athabascan. Tahltan Athabascans played a traditional gambling game similar to that of their Tlingit neighbors, involving a trump stick and others shuffled beneath shredded cedar bark. This tanned caribou hide bag has a pocket at each end to hold the smooth wooden playing sticks, which are marked with black and red designs to designate their names and values. The bag is decorated with red flannel and glass beads and was made to hang over the shoulder.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Illus. Fig. 9.6, left, p. 151 in Yanicki, Gabriel & Ives, John. "Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. " In Prehistoric games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica, ed. Barbara Voorhies. University of Utah Press, 2017, 139 - 162.

Culture
Tlingit ? or Tahltan ?
Made in
Alaska, USA ? or British Columbia, Canada ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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