Shell, Knife
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: "FOR BASKET MAKING. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 12, NO. 10; P. 48."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 15 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Woman's knife of blue mussel shell used by women for basket making."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 114 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Jackknife".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Admiralty Island / Angoon, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Hutsnuwu
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: E168352-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife