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Paddles 2E260397-0

From card: "Carved."Marked on paddles: Yakutat. Identified as Eskimo on catalogue card but appear more Northwest Coast style? Yakutat is home to a number of Tlingit people. Catalogue card identifies locality as Jackson (i.e Howkan), Alaska. Howkan was originally a Tlingit village, but later became a Kaigani Haida village sometime in the early eighteenth century.

Culture
Eskimo ?, Tlingit ?, Haida and Kaigani ?
Made in
Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE260488-0

Listed on page 41 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket-CoverE260496-0
Totem-PoleE260737-0
BasketE260485-0

From card: "Cedar bark."Original label attached to artifact says "Jessie Matthews [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.Listed on page 41 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

Culture
Tlingit ? or Haida ?
Made in
Howkan, Long Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE260459-0
BasketE260460-0
MatsE260471-0

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO UNION UNIVERSITY, JACKSON, TN, 1923.

Culture
Indian
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Totem-PoleE260738-0
BasketE260476-0