Subject: x'igaa káa warrior
Culture: Tlingit
Setting: Russian war, Northwest Coast 1802-1867
Object: gwálaa, shak'atś dagger; litaa daakeit sheath
Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians *
"KNIFE Tlingit, pre-1850 Copper"
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* Horsley 2001 May 19 online
"The highlight of this part of the auction is Lot 325, a Northwest Coast dagger, probably Tlingit, that is 21 1/2 inches high, and has a finely carved horn veneer handle in the form of a voracious sea creature, with thick lips, jagged teeth, flaring nostrils and hollowed eye frames with classic ovoid eye rims, holding a shaman figure in its caping [SIC] mouth, flanked by a pair of human arms. ..."
Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians *
"KNIFE Tlingit, pre-1904 Copper"
Africa Direct *
* American Museum of Natural History > Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
"[left] Dagger of Whalebone
[right] THE OLDEST TYPE OF WAR KNIFE. It was worn suspended from the neck in a skin sheath. When in use, it was bound to the wrist with a strap to prevent its loss."
American Museum of Natural History > Hall of Northwest Coast Indians *
"WAR KNIVES"
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas
"Dagger Tlingit, Alaska, 1850-60
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas
"Dagger Tlingit, Alaska, ca. 1860
Bone, abalone shell, iron"
* Cf.
