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FROM CARD: "CURVED. USED IN HOLLOWING OUT BOATS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 9; P. 737."In American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 190 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/658453?seq=4), D. W. Prentiss, Jr. appears to describe a knife like this in use to hollow boats and dishes during his visit to Yakutat Bay, Alaska in 1895. Prentiss had served as an assistant to Dr. Frederick William True, travelling to the Pribilof Islands for research on the summer 1895 voyage of the U.S.S. Albatross, whose return voyage stopped at Yakutat Bay.

Culture: Tlingit and Yakutat
Made in: Alaska, USA
Holding Institution: National Museum of Natural History

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