Copper Ornament

Item number E60648-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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FROM CARD: "PLAIN, NO DECORATION. FORM OF THE TRADITIONAL "COPPER". REF. DAWSON, "HAIDA INDIANS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISL.," CANADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PROVISIONAL REPORT 1878, FIG. 135 B."In a letter dated September 8, 1881 filed in Accession No. 11616, in the postscript to the letter McLean says "I send by this mail a copper shield made by a Hoochenoo [Hutsnuwu Tlingit] Indian from native copper, and said to antedate the Russian occupation of Alaska. This curiosity is sent with the compliments of Mr. Carl Spuhn Manager NW Trdg. Co. [Northwest Trading Company] S.E. Alaska." It is possible this refers to E60648 (or E67947)?