Dog Fish-Polisher
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: "SUBSTITUTE SAND PAPER. INVENTORIED 1980."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 4 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Piece of the skin of the dog fish ... from the work box of a Tlingit ... used as a substitute for sand paper in working down and polishing horn spoons, dishes and wood and bone carvings."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Sitka
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: E168341-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Smoother