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Sealskin powder flask (1891.49.87) 

This 19th-century powder flask was made from the bladder of a seal by the Haida people of the Northwest Pacific Coast of Canada. Sealskin was an important and widely-used material of the Haida. After contact with American-Europeans in 1774, they traded furs and skins for new goods such as iron kettles and firearms.