Wallet In Process
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1890
label: Collection Date
content: 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: From late 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Plaiting in Cedar Bark. - Half finished wallet made of the inner bark of the giant cedar (Thuja giagantea) in three colors, the natural hue of the bark, light-brown, and black. The weaving is in plain, square patterns, similar to that done by the Indians farther south. Henneah or Hennegah (Henya) Indians (Koluschan Stock), Tuxshekan (Tuxikan). Southeast Alaska, 1889. Gift of Lieut. George T. Emmons, U.S.N. The Indians of the Northwest Coast formerly removed slabs of cedar bark by hacking around the tree as in gathering tan bark, and then splitting them off in strips or whole, by means of wedges made of the ribs of the deer. These slabs then received a different treatment according to their future use as roof coverings, cinctures, beds, sails, mats, or baskets. For weaving or plaiting the bast or inner bark was peeled off and split with the thumb-nail. The black dyeing was done by burying the strips in a bog, and the brown by means of vegetable substances. No loom was used, but the plaiter sat on the ground and manipulated her material in precisely the same way as the palm-leaf-hat makers."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Prince Of Wales Island / Tuxekan, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Henya
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022759
label: USNM Number
content: E131211-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket