Name/Title
Eskimo Utensils & Ceremonial Items, Harry George Collection, Photo, c. 1910Entry/Object ID
143/408Description
Eskimo Utensils & Ceremonial Items, Harry George Collection, Photo, c. 1910. sepia. Photo of numerous items display on fur cover over tabletop. Many objects numbered and described below:
Handwritten on back:
"Photo 7, Plate# 7, Case, Correspondence Vol. 1, pg. 67D, 89A
1. Old Hydia Hat, wooden--4.00
2. Old copper plated, (basement)--5.00
3. Male organ of walrus, used as seal club--4.00
4. Old Russian copper kettle--3.50
5. Old caribou tooth dancing belt, teeth of the caribous in belt--25.00
6. Old native adzes for making canoes, totem poles, etc.--2.00
7. Old very large potlatch spoon set with abalone.-- (what appears to be a ring around spoon s really buckle of #8,) --77c.
8. Old gambling game of 40 sticks, Nicely carved of Alaska crab apple, very old, in case.--10.00
9. Old mastadon tooth, (ivory case?) --2.00
10. Old ivory sled runner, Eskimo--3.00
11. Walrus tooth, mastadon
*2, Old copper plate, probably used as a breast plate to protect the body in times of war from spears and arrows, and afterwards as a tombstone.
*3. Bone to start with, has petrified until it is as hard and heavy as ivory. Shows it has been used as a club for a long time. Weight and shape make it an ideal skull cracker."Collection
Harry L. George Collection, PHOTOGRAPHSLexicon
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Native American, Eskimo, George CollectionDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 4¼" x 6½"