Copyright: 143.333 Thlingit Weapons, Harry George Collection
Name/Title
Thlingit Weapons & Hudson Bay Gun, Harry George Collection Photo, 1910
Entry/Object ID
143/333
Description
Thlingit Weapons & Hudson Bay Gun, Harry George Collection Photo, 1910. sepia. Photo of Hudson Bay rifle, a pistol, arrows & knives.
Handwritten on back:
"Correspondence Vol.. I., page 89 W. H. Case
Photo 20
1. Old Hudson Bay gun, used by Thlingits and purchased when the price of a gun was a stack of furs the length of the gun. (basement)
2. Old Eskimo arrow
3. Old Eskimo arrow
4. Old Eskimo arrow, made with three ivory points, especially for shooting birds or fish.
5. Old hunting knife, probably of Japanese origin
6. Thlingit adze
7. Old Thlingit carving knife
8. Old Thlingit carving knife
9. Old flintlock pistol known to have been used by natives to kill brown bear.
10. Killer club made of whale bone
11. Old Thlingit knife, used for stabbing in the fighting.
12. Old Thlingit powder horn.
Collection
Harry L. George Collection, PHOTOGRAPHS
Made/Created
Date made
1910
Place
State/Province
Alaska
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Photographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Photograph
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Weapons, Arrows, Guns, Knives, Clubs
Search Terms
Native American, Alaska Tribes, Thlingit, George Collection
