Object Details
- Notes
- From card: "For paint, Lignite is ground with salmon eggs. For tattooing, ground with water." Neg. #2005-22350 is photo of this mortar with lignite paint Catalogue No. E88904.
- Listed on page 50 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)". Listed under incorrect number 89013.
- Record Last Modified
- 20 Oct 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Collector
- James G. Swan
- Donor Name
- James G. Swan
- Accession Date
- 21 Dec 1883
- Collection Date
- July 1883
- Object Type
- Mortar
