Whetstone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Apr 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BEAR'S JAW AND TUSKS."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 7 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Bear's jaw ... used to give the fine edge to carving knives after they had undergone sharpening on? the whetstone. The edge is drawn on the tusks."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chichagof Island / Hoonah, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Hoonah
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028072
label: USNM Number
content: E168344-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Whetstone