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- Description
- Swift Creek Plain bowl, Bibb County, Georgia. Swift Creek.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 1086
- Image Number
- 2324
- Description
- Net or line sinker with groove.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17325
- Image Number
- 23240
- Description
- Halibut hooks. These were bent by steaming, and a bone point was attached to one end with wild cherry bark. Most fishhooks were made of western hemlock.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17326
- Image Number
- 23241
- Description
- Hook for bottom fish, including cod and sea bass. These fish could be caught throughout the year whenever the sea was calm.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17327
- Image Number
- 23242
- Description
- Whetstone used for sharpening hooks.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17328
- Image Number
- 23243
- Description
- Herring rake, with pointed bone teeth. Herring were harvested in the summer.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17329
- Image Number
- 23244
- Description
- Mussel shell knife edge. The sharp, beveled edge formed by grinding on a sandstone whetstone would be very effective for cutting fish and for butchering land and sea mammals.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17330
- Image Number
- 23245
- Description
- Whaling harpoon head haying on the cedar bark sheath in which it was found. The harpoon point, made of mussel shell, was held by two bone valves and fastend with sinew to the whaling line. Smaller harpoon heads similar to this type but with bone points were used for hunting seals, and catching salmon. In the case of whale hunting, the harpoon was not meant to kill the animal, but rather to attach seal skin floats. The drag of the floats would exha
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17331
- Image Number
- 23246
- Description
- Bone harpoon valves minus the mussel shell blade.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17332
- Image Number
- 23247
- Description
- Seal radius with a broken-off shell harpoon blade imbedded in it.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17333
- Image Number
- 23248
- Description
- Hunting canoe paddle. Note the pointed end, which lessened the sound of water dripping from the paddle.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17334
- Image Number
- 23249
- Description
- Deptford Bold Check Stamp, Chatham County, Georgia. Deptford.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 1087
- Image Number
- 2325
- Description
- Rope made of twisted cedar limbs, used in whaling.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17335
- Image Number
- 23250
- Description
- Seal club. Note that on one end is a representation of a seal's head, and on the other, a representation of a human head. Many utilitarian objects made by the people who lived at Ozette demonstrate a developed technology together with an extraordinary esthetic sense.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17336
- Image Number
- 23251
- Description
- Owl club. Owls have ritual significance in this area, and it is likely that this club was a baton carried by a shaman.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17337
- Image Number
- 23252
- Description
- Owl club, end.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17338
- Image Number
- 23253
- Description
- Owl club, distal end. Note the echoing curve for the brow of the owl and the human-like head.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17339
- Image Number
- 23254
- Description
- Although the Ozette people did not develop pottery, wooden boxes were used for every purpose pots could be used for, including cooking. They also were used for storage and carrying, and are often a vehicle for beautiful decoration. Ranging in size from 8 to 10 cms. Across to very large storage chests, the box sides were made from a single plank of cedar. A thin board was first grooved in three places and then steamed. When it was flexible, the boa
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17340
- Image Number
- 23255
- Description
- Front of decorated box, showing representation of whales.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17341
- Image Number
- 23256
- Description
- Some boxes were used for cooking by filling with water and dropping in heated stones. The bottom of this box had been burned through by a heated stone, and then repaired by sewing on a wooden patch.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17342
- Image Number
- 23257
- Description
- Boxes were apparently deemed valuable enough to be repaired when they were damaged. Here a split side of a box was bound together.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17343
- Image Number
- 23258
- Description
- Wooden platter, of alder wood. In a technique somewhat similar to box-making, this platter was shaped and then steamed.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17344
- Image Number
- 23259
- Description
- Woodland Plain, unknown, Georgia.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 1088
- Image Number
- 2326
- Description
- Carved anthropomorphic bowl. This kind of bowl probably was used for oil. Oil bowls are common on the Northwest coast, but most are not as elaborate as this. Carved in the form of a human being with a braid of human hair, this was almost certainly used for ceremonial purposes.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17345
- Image Number
- 23260
- Description
- Wooden club with human face. Note the stylization of the eyes which continue around to the reverse side.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17346
- Image Number
- 23261
- Description
- Wooden club, reverse side.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17347
- Image Number
- 23262
- Description
- Carved wooden head, possibly a stylized bird.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17348
- Image Number
- 23263
- Description
- Woodworking tool with a beaver incisor blade at the end. Once more the care and attention expended on utilitarian objects is shown in the carefully carved head of a man wearing a hat, on the handle of the tool.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17349
- Image Number
- 23264
- Description
- Basket made form the inner bark of the red cedar. This could have been used for storage or for collecting berries or shellfish.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17350
- Image Number
- 23265
- Description
- Coiled basket made of spruce root. This method of manufacture is uncharacteristic of Ozette baskets, and this specimen may have been made by a slave from a neighboring group, or a trade item or potlatch gift.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17351
- Image Number
- 23266
- Description
- Hat made of basketry. In an area as rainy as the Olympic Peninsula, rain hats are a virtual necessity. The hat is resting on its crown to show the different weaves on the inside and outside.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17352
- Image Number
- 23267
- Description
- Flat basket made from cedar bark. Note the two kinds of checkerboard pattern. Dozens of baskets were found in one Ozette house. One, apparently a weaver's kit, contained awls, a spindle whorl, combs, blades, and a lump of red pigment.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17353
- Image Number
- 23268
- Description
- Large cedar bark mat. Mats were used as bedding and as canoe furnishings.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17354
- Image Number
- 23269
- Description
- Point Peninsula Cord Wrapped Stick, near Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. Woodland, Point Peninsula.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 1089
- Image Number
- 2327
- Description
- Replicated loom in the Makah Cultural and Research Center. Although weaving had not been known to occur among the Ozette, several looms were found in the excavations. Dog hair from specially bred dogs was used in the textiles, along with plant fibers.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17355
- Image Number
- 23270
- Description
- Weavers' "swords" or wool beaters.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17356
- Image Number
- 23271
- Description
- Weavers' "sword" or wool beater, detail.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17357
- Image Number
- 23272
- Description
- Carved wood spindle whorl. A number of spindle whorls were found at Ozette, each with a different and distinctive design.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17358
- Image Number
- 23273
- Description
- Wooden double comb. The decorative carving of a sea monster with a bear's head continues around to the reverse side.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17359
- Image Number
- 23274
- Description
- Comb made of antler or bone. This may have been an article of personal ornament. Note the very fine carving of two standing wolves.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17360
- Image Number
- 23275
- Description
- Wooden paddle used in a game similar to modern shuttlecock.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17361
- Image Number
- 23276
- Description
- Replicated Ozette house constructed according to details from planks, foundation posts, and other building materials and tools found at Ozette. The house was later moved inside the Makah Cultural and Research Center, where it is now located.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17362
- Image Number
- 23277
- Description
- House construction, detail of planks tied in position.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17363
- Image Number
- 23278
- Description
- House construction, detail of how a plank was tied to an upright support post.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17364
- Image Number
- 23279
- Description
- Wilmington Heavy Cord Marked, Wilmington Island, Chatham County, Georgia. Macon Plateau.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 1090
- Image Number
- 2328
- Description
- Replicated house, interior, showing large supporting column.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17365
- Image Number
- 23280
- Description
- Replicated house, interior, showing how the roof beams were supported by notched upright timbers.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17366
- Image Number
- 23281
- Description
- Replicated house, interior, showing the arrangement of benches used for sleeping.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17367
- Image Number
- 23282
- Description
- Replicated house, interior, showing drying racks, under the roof for fish and other foods.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17368
- Image Number
- 23283
- Description
- Wedges used to split logs in various stages of manufacture.
- Date of Photo
- 1982
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17369
- Image Number
- 23284