Hair Skin Tinder-Case, Fire Stone, Carved Clasp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "STRIKE-A-LIGHT.---RECEPTACLE, MADE OF SEAL SKIN, CONTAINING FLINT AND PYRITES, AND A MASS OF SHREDDED CEDAR BARK FOR TINDER, OR KINDLING. THE RECEPTACLE IS ROLLED AROUND THE BARK AND FASTENED WITH A THONG. STIKINE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK), FORT WRANGELL, ALASKA. 20,861. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." The same information is also on an old typed label stored with the artifact.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Wrangell Island / Fort Wrangell, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Stikine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004730
label: USNM Number
content: E20861-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set