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Description: Identifier: annualreportofbo1888smiths (find matches) Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Year: 1846 (1840s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: cted by John J. McLean. Fig. 105. Dagger. Steel blade; carved wooden handle, representing an Indianchief sitting. (Sheath of moose hide to the left.) Cat. No. 74362, U.S. N. M. Tlingit Indians, Sitka, Alaska. Collected by John J. McLean. Fig. 106. Dagger. Steel blade; carved cedar-wood handle. Cat. No. 76463, U. S.N. M. Tlingit Indians, Sitka, Alaska. Collected by James G. Swan. Fig. 107. Double-bladed Dagger. With copper mountings; Tlingit type. Prob-ably acquired by Copper River Indians through trade. Fig. 107e isbuckskin sheath with neck-strap. Fig. 107d is the sheath for the shortblade. Cat. No. 88702, U. S. N. M. Atna or Copper River Indians(Athapaskan stock), Alaska. Collected by James G. Swan. Fig. 108. Dagger. Of copper; double-headed; primitive type; elaborately chasedand inlaid with abalone shell. Cat. No. 89020, U. S. N. M. Haida In-dians, Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands British Columbia. Col-lected by James G. Swan. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack, Plate XXV. Text Appearing After Image: Copper and Steel Daggers with Sheaths of Buckskin and Moose Hide. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 285

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