Beaver (?) design (identified by Charles Brown, June 1964) in blue, red, black. Label: "Sitka" - a Tlingit community.
Donor:
Mills College
Collection place:
Sitka, Baranof Island, Sitka Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Alexander Archipelago; Sitka
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Such elaborately painted paddles were decorated particularly for trips to other villages for festive occasions.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 152 centimeters
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955), S1951-1952 #1: University of California, Los Angeles (March 15, 1952–returned by 1957), S1952-1953 #2: California Palace of the Legion of Honor (dates unknown), S1963-1964 #9: UC San Francisco Medical Center (September 3, 1963–October 11, 1963), S1966-1967 #100: Social Science Department (UC Berkeley) (April 26, 1967–May 4, 1967), S1974-1975 #41: Palo Alto Cultural Center (January 6, 1975–March 19, 1975), and S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984)