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Chilkat YarnE324882-0

From card: "5 samples of yarns used in weaving [Chilkat] blankets. White, yellow, black, blue and twisted with cedar bark."

Culture
Tlingit and Chilkat
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BraceletsE153360-0

From card: "Hammered from coins. Chased in modern design (fish)." Per Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, these are made from silver half dollar coins. She also indicates that E153360A and B are almost identical and are decorated with dogfish with the face at the center and the body split to either side; E153360C is decorated with a design of two salmon with their heads meeting at the center and the bodies to the sides. E153360B is illus. Fig. 18, p. 47 and E153360C is illus. Fig. 17, p. 47, and all 3 are also described p. 72 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. See: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah. 1885. Alaska. Its southern coast and the Sitkan Archipelago. Boston Mass: D. Lothrop & Co. (a collection of the travel letters Scidmore wrote for newspapers during her Alaska trips of 1883 and1884). On pp. 128-9 of this publication, Scidmore describes a Hoonah silversmith at work. Bunn-Marcuse quotes a section on p. 47 of Precious Metals.

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