Stone Pile Driver
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Sep 1903
label: Collection Date
content: 1903
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A circular stone, 2 in. thick with cavities for the fingers. Used in driving stakes to support the weirs for eulachon water game."
label: Notes
content: This object has a glued on label on one side from "[B.] C. & Alaska Indian Bazaar. 43 Johnson Street, Victoria, B.C. [Canada]", from which Emmons presumably purchased it. Also, carving on one side resembles a frowning face.
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: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Knight Inlet, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
label: Culture
content: Haisla, Kitamaat
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 041495
label: USNM Number
content: E222031-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pile Driver