Paddles 2

National Museum of Natural History

E260397-0

From card: "Carved."Marked on paddles: Yakutat. Identified as Eskimo on catalogue card but appear more Northwest Coast style? Yakutat is home to a number of Tlingit people. Catalogue card identifies locality as Jackson (i.e Howkan), Alaska. Howkan was originally a Tlingit village, but later became a Kaigani Haida village sometime in the early eighteenth century.


  • Type of Item paddle
  • Culture Eskimo, Tlingit, Haida, Kaigani

  • Received from U.S. Department Of Interior

  • Made in Howkan
  • Collected in Howkan

  • Acquisition Date on January 27, 1910

  • Accession Number 051115