Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
99.21.009
Accession#:
99.21
Credit Line:
Donated by Mary Ann Parke.
Object Name:
Tool, Digging
Title:
Tlingit(?) Digging Tool
Date:
1900
Description:
Tlingit digging tool. Likely Sitka spruce. Hand carved. Round 34 inch by 0.5 inch diameter handle. Digging end of tool tapers from rounded handle to flattened and pointed blade. Blade tapers from 4.25 inch width at base of handle to flattened point. Total blade length 14 inches. Digging end or blade slightly offset from center of handle.
Notes:
Collected & preserved by Thomas S. Parke. Collected in northern SOUTHEAST Alaska.
11/2000 Steve Brown wasn't sure what this was used for. Neither did Steve Henrikson.
Search Terms:
Tlingit
Native
Subsistence
Agriculture
Food
Home Life
T&E
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Tlingit(?) Digging ToolTlingit(?) Digging Tool
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