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Description: Whale fin effigy, carved of cedar and inset with 700 sea otter teeth, mostly molars. Along the edge, canine teeth were used to give a jagged appearance to the sculpture. At the bottom is the representation of a mythological bird. The function of this piece is unknown, but it is likely that it was associated with whaling rituals.
Date of Photo: 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17373
Image Categories: : ; Art: Portable object; Artifact Material: Botanical

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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 Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Agriculture and Subsistence: Fishing Object; Artifact Function: Agriculture and Subsistence: Hunting Object; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Alaska, Eskimo. Harpoon head 3"l. Soutwest Museum of Los Angeles.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 3576
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Agriculture and Subsistence: Hunting Object; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

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Description: Nazca "estolica" made out of hard wood having on one extreme a copper lance tied with vicuna wool threads and in the handle some figures engraved in bone. It is 53 cm long. They are archaeological pieces.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 1258
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Weapon; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

Description: Iron knife with wooden sheath. The blade is long, straight, and pointed, with wavy edges. The wooden hilt is missing, as is the engraved shell ornamentation originally attached to both ends of the wooden sheath. The sheath is cracked open along one edge, and a small portion of the hilt end is broken off.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 24180
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Weapon; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

Description: Iron knife with wooden sheath. The blade is long, straight, and pointed, with wavy edges. The wooden hilt is missing, as is the engraved shell ornamentation originally attached to both ends of the wooden sheath. The sheath is cracked open along one edge, and a small portion of the hilt end is broken off.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 24181
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Weapon; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

Description: Iron knife with decorated wooden hilt and sheath. The blade is long, straight, and pointed with convex edges. The carved wooden hilt is detached from the blade. The sheath is cracking in a number of places and its tip appears to have been broken off. The engraved shell ornamentation from the hilt end of the sheath is broken and largely detached. There is one piece of engraved shell which does not fit onto the sheath, it may have been attached to the
Holdings: 35mm slide: 24182
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Weapon; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

Description: Iron knife with decorated wooden hilt and sheath. The blade is long, straight, and pointed with convex edges. The carved wooden hilt is detached from the blade. The sheath is cracking in a number of places and its tip appears to have been broken off. The engraved shell ornamentation from the hilt end of the sheath is broken and largely detached. There is one piece of engraved shell which does not fit onto the sheath, it may have been attached to the
Holdings: 35mm slide: 24183
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Weapon; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

Description: Onondaga County, New York; Pen site, Onondaga. Pewter cup; wood and brass screw for boxes containing vermillion. Stanwicks - Ennis, 1680-1694.
Date of Photo: 1973
Holdings: 35mm slide: 14502
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal; Artifact Material: Metal

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Description: Hunting gear of the Upper Pima.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 3669
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Accessory; Artifact Function: Stone Tools and Tool Production: Chipped Stone; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Stone; Text/Graphic/Model: Artifact Illustration

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Description: Arkansas - Bone awls D33, D12; Basket M237; Moccasins M286, M262. probably from Ozark Bluff dwellings.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 611
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Clothing; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Objects found in the turfpit of Shigir, City of Sverdlov.; Note: Book is in Russian; Article: АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ КАРТА г СВЕРДЛОВСКА И ЕГО ОКРЕСТНОСТЕЙ; Journal: МАТЕРИАЛЫ И ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ПО АРХЕОЛОГИИ СССР
Holdings: 35mm slide: 5704
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Heating and Lighting; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Function: Stone Tools and Tool Production: Chipped Stone; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Unassigned; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Ceramic; Artifact Material: Stone

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Description: Marquesas Islands - headband, Nuahira, coconut fiber band with large, circular pearl shell and turtle shell overlay, 14" long. Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 3043
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Accessory; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Amaknak D Site. 46472- Basalt point. 46491- notched pebble. 46496- wedge used as drill- bearing. 46461- unilaterally barbed point. 46507- bird-bone awl. 46470- ivory needle. 46422- norton-style labret. Associated with Burial 1: 46419- shrapnel, barbed point; 46423- bamboo net shuttle; 46421- ivory pendant.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17793
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Stone Tools and Tool Production: Chipped Stone; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Stone; Artifact Mater

Description: Amaknak D Site. 46472, 46491, 46496, 46461, 46507- Bird bone awl. 46470- ivory needles. 46422- Norton-style labret. 46419- shrapnel barbed point. 46423- bamboo net shuttle. 46421- ivory pendant (?), associated with Burial 1.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17795
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Stone Tools and Tool Production: Chipped Stone; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Amaknak #1 Site. Bone awls, pins, and miscellaneous. Left to right: 42583, 42414, 42719, 42771- awls. 42710, 42584, 42815- pins. 42882- awl (?). 42324- whetstone. 42438- Ivory plug (?). 42555- sea mammal bone, pointed bone object. 42735- zoomorphic wooden object.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17790
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Function: Unassigned; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Mineral; Artifact Material: Stone

Description: Amaknak #1 Site. Bone awls, pins, and miscellaneous. Left to right: 42583, 42414, 42719 (note ochre in point), 42771- awls. 42710, 42584, 42815- pins. 42882- awl. 42324- whetstone. 42438- Ivory plug. 42555- sea mammal bone, pointed bone object. 42735- zoomorphic wooden object.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17791
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Mineral

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Description: Feathered breast ornament decorated with seeds strung as beads and sections of bird bones, Jivaro Indians of Ecuador and Peru.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 1367
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Onondaga County, New York; Pen site, Onondaga. Bone handles, antler combs, wood combs, pewter bird pendants, pewter pipe. Stanwicks - Ennis, 1680-1696.
Date of Photo: 1973
Holdings: 35mm slide: 14533
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Toiletries; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

Description: Necklace made of small pink-ish shell beads, plastic beads in various colors, hollow halves of black nut shells, and clusters of some kind of animal teeth. The necklace is strung on grass fiber. The plastic beads mark the teeth clusters off from the small pink beads. The nut shells are hung on 4 terminating strands in pairs, with two teeth above them.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20829
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Material: Animal Materials; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Large necklace made out of seeds, wooden plates and graffito decorated bones. Harmony and an admirable taste is displayed in the whole necklace. Each seed has a peculiar sound and altogether produce harmonious tones. The drawing on this piece was executed with strict adherence to the original and deserves special attention. In the book entitled " The Andes of Southern Peru" by Isaiah Bowman are found the following very interesting data: "The Yave
Holdings: 35mm slide: 1248
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Dress and Personal Adornment: Jewelry; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: New Hebrides - ceremonial mask, headdress, Tomman Island, clay over wood, with wild boar teeth, 17" high. Peabody Museum, Salem.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 3017
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Ceramic

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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 Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Cedar found with shark's teeth 12-14" long.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 238
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Function: Unassigned; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Garden Knife. Long, narrow, S-shaped metal (iron?) blade set on long wooden handle.; Handle was shortened to transport it from Madagascar to the UMMA.; Collected by H. T. Wright in November 2003, during a National Geographic trip to Madagascar. Notes from H. Wright:; "Obtained by exchange for a new Betsileo knife purchased for 15,000 Malagasy francs ($3.98) with a young man who had inherited the knife and did not know its value or its origin.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 24080
Image Categories: : ; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Metal

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Description: West Coast Indian Baskets from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibits Series (SITES). Old photograph, Native American holding basket.
Date of Photo: 1980
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18058
Image Categories: Activity: Domestic/everyday; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Material: Botanical; Portrait: Ethnographic

Description: Salmon drying on racks around an open fire
Date of Photo: circa Sept. 1983
Holdings: 35mm slide: 31438
Image Categories: Activity: Food production/Animal or Plant Husbandry; Artifact Function: Tools and Equipment; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Maring man painting a shield
Date of Photo: circa May 1972
Holdings: 35mm slide: 32026
Image Categories: Activity: Technology/manufacturing; Art: Portable object; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Armour; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Sal Negra drying in basket, Sebastian Nopaltictla Workshop, Las Salinas, Nexquipayac, July 1988.
Date of Photo: July, 1988
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18860
Image Categories: Activity: Technology/manufacturing; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Hawaii, City of Refuge; Heiau Palisade, one outside figure penis effigy.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1970
Holdings: 35mm slide: 13232
Image Categories: Architecture: Fortification; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Hawaii, City of Refuge; Ikiau Palisade and figures.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1970
Holdings: 35mm slide: 13238
Image Categories: Architecture: Fortification; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Karaja, Fontura. A shelter, note the folded mat on the floor and the gourds stacked on the pole. Lago Fontoura, Ilha do Bananau, Rio Araguaia
Date of Photo: 1957
Holdings: 35mm slide: 9415
Image Categories: Architecture: House or other domestic structure; Artifact Function: Textile; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Japan, Reconstructed Jomon pit house.
Date of Photo: 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16591
Image Categories: Architecture: House or other domestic structure; Artifact Material: Botanical; Artifact Material: Unknown; Text/Graphic/Model: Reconstruction

Description: Museum near Bhopal.
Date of Photo: circa Dec. 1994
Holdings: 35mm slide: 32423
Image Categories: Architecture: Other public building/space; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Hawaii, City of Refuge; Heiau reconstructed.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1970
Holdings: 35mm slide: 13235
Image Categories: Architecture: Religious/ritual; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Hawaii, City of Refuge; National Historic Park, Hale-O-Keawe temple.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1970
Holdings: 35mm slide: 13237
Image Categories: Architecture: Religious/ritual; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Totem pole and church
Date of Photo: circa Sept. 1983
Holdings: 35mm slide: 31483
Image Categories: Architecture: Religious/ritual; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: Bedford Mound Group (Pk o 462), Illinois. Ceremonial log structure between mounds.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1955
Holdings: 35mm slide: 6939
Image Categories: Architecture: Religious/ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Japan, Toro site, Yayoi raised store house.
Date of Photo: 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16605
Image Categories: Architecture: Storage/granary/husbandry; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Seal on YAADAAS Crest Pole.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18987
Image Categories: Art: Architectural elements; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Raven on GAANAXADI Pole.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 18992
Image Categories: Art: Architectural elements; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 44471- Wood object, painted. 44468- Man shaped object. 44511- Man shaped object. All frontal views.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17759
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Art: Portable object; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 44471- Wood object, painted. 44468- Man shaped object. 44511- Man shaped object. All profile, all found surface, rear of cave.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17760
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Art: Portable object; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 44471- Wood object, painted (left). 44468- Man shaped object. 44511- Man shaped object. All rear views.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17761
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Art: Portable object; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Wooden cup painted in red and blue made of a cottonwood root, as are modern Hopi kachina dolls. The geometric design is somewhat suggestive of both ceramic and cloth fabric designs of about the same period.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 1739
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 44485- Wood mask fragment. Painted front surface.
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17750
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 44622- Wood mask fragment, painted (front).
Date of Photo: Dec. 1982
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17756
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 44620- Kagamil Island, Mask Cave (front, i.e. exterior surface), red and black pigments. 44620a- Mask fragment forehead, bridge of nose and eye sockets (front view). 44620b- Mask fragment base (?) Notice: holes do not go completely through wood (front view). 44620c- Mask fragment, thin lateral fragment.
Date of Photo: Jan. 1983
Holdings: 35mm slide: 17855
Image Categories: Art: Painting; Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual; Artifact Material: Botanical

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Description: Shichishito of the Ishigami Shrine Slide information translated by Dr. Masao Nishimura. Unknown Japanese Vendor
Date of Photo: 1978
Holdings: 35mm slide: 16411
Image Categories: Art: Portable object; Artifact Function: Armour and Weapons: Weapon; Artifact Material: Botanical

Description: 1 of 2 lids (other 2004-20-8c) for wooden box (2004-20-8b); Roughly worked square, flat piece of wood. One small hole, perhaps for latch, now missing.; No decoration/ carving. Does not fit in opening at top of box. Can merely be placed over it.; Top closure intended to slide on place from a rectangular slot in one side and fit into grooves in the interior of box. Material warping does not allow for insertion.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 24396
Image Categories: Art: Portable object; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Function: Container; Artifact Material: Botanical

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