Small Wedge Used In Making Canoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Feb 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: Originally listed as 3 wedges, but only 1 remains in the collection. SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY [1?] SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 49 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 (Tools)".
label: Notes
content: See Cat. 115 p. 193 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on one wedge, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.358, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E72679.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Washington, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Makah
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012690
label: USNM Number
content: E72679-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wedge