Tablet
49-25-329
From: United States of America | Alaska | Kootznahoo Inlet | Daxatkanada
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 49-25-329 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Kootznahoo Inlet | Daxatkanada |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Locus | C3E (NW 1/2 of square) 12" from surface |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Claystone |
| Technique | Incised |
| Description | Yellow brown claystone tablet, split from a pebble - with design, layed out in transverse bands and transverse zigzags. Design covers surface - suggests a highly conventionalized face. Across top is transverse badn of zigzags between hardening lines, above which rise spreading spars (feather crown?) Face represented by two oval eyes from which lines run down like tears - across bottom third are transverse lines, longitudinal spurs, pained zigzags or chevrons. Suggestive of mouth or of clothing. |
| Length | 7.3 cm |
| Width | 4.8 cm |
| Thickness | 1.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Survey of Northern Tlingit Country, Frederica de Laguna, 1949 |
| Other Number | 77 - Field No SF |
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