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Wooden SpoonE16256-0

Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden SpoonE16253-0

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden Square Wash Tub OrnamentedE20552-0
Stone MortarE204210-0

FROM CARD: "GRAY GRANITE, SMOOTH FINISH, SHALLOW GROOVE CUT AROUND EXTERIOR HORIZONTALLY."

Culture
Tsimshian and Kitkatla
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Double Reed-InstrumentE20698-0

FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. EACH SECTION IS EXCAVATED FROM END TO END. WHEN BOUND TOGETHER FORMING AN OPEN TUBE, WHICH IS ENLARGED. A LOWEND AND AN OBOE OR DOUBLE REED FORMED OF PINE IN TWO SECTIONS IS LASHED TOGETHER AND FORCED IN THE OUTER END."

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Paddle From Ft. SimpsonE20902-0
Knives 3E395489-0
Ancient Copper BraceletE20637-0

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. VI, FIG. 7, P. 260." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS.---MADE OF COPPER AND INLAID WITH PIECES OF SHELL, HALIOTIS KAMSCHATKENSIS. NASSES [NASS] INDIANS, NEAR FORT SIMPSON. GREATEST DIAM., 2 3/4 INS. LEAST DIAM., 2 INS. FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1875. 20,637. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

Culture
Tsimshian, Nass River ? and Nisga'a ?
Made in
Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Neck GirdleE233457-0