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Gambling Implement, Woman'sE/894
Pestles 2E306356-0
Basket, Shaman's Drinking, From Burial CaveE230012-0

From card: "Basket of spruce root, found in the rock cave burial place of a deceased Shaman of the Hook-ah-tar tribe of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. The cave was on a rocky headland of Admiralty Island, on the Chatham Strait shore near the old village of Neltooskin. This basket was used to drink salt water from before practicing or when fasting. The two bands of ornamentation are in the designs of the butterfly and the half head of the salmonberry. Fitted with a handle of twisted spruce root. Illus. Fig. 28, p. 20 in A Guide to Weft Twining by David W. Fraser. Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1989."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Neltushkin, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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