Name/Title
Alaska Tribes Utensils, Harry George Collection, Photo, c. 1910Entry/Object ID
143/332Description
Alaska Tribes Utensils, Harry George Collection, Photo, c. 1910. sepia. Photo of a variety of items, including a metal kettle, mortar, pipes, etc. as described below. Displayed sitting on tabletop.
Handwritten on back"
"Correspondence, Vol. 1, pg. 67F, a, 89B, W.H. Case.
Photo 11
1. Potlatch spoon, sheep horn (basement)--2.50
2. Old copper bound mortar, (5618) --2.50
3. Hudson Bay brass kettle--5.00
4. Stone pipe (clay) Thlingit--1.5
5. Pipe made from stock of old gun (5773?)--.50
7. Ptarmagin throw, ivory weights on rawhide thongs, very effective in getting birds. (5839)--2.50
8. Pair of old copper tweezers for pulling out the beard. The only pair I know of.--2.00
9. Pair of old brass bracelets, hanging on the mortar (not numbered), well carved and old.--2.00
*1b is a piece of Alaskan pottery from Illiamna Lake, Kenia Pennisula Avoay(?) Inland amongst a very primitive people and decides to my satisfaction a very much mooted question as to whether or not these northern people ever made pottery. It is of the chopping bowl shape. Pottery made from clay, reindeer hair and blood by Alieuts.
*2. Wooden mortar is used for grinding snuff, paints, etc."Collection
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Native American, Alaska Tribes, Aleut, George CollectionDimensions
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Printsize: 4¼" x 6½"