Paint Brush

Item number ET714-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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HAS CATALOG CARD. Card indicates that there were originally 12 paint brushes with this T number, a number of which were illustrated in Plate XLV-B, after p. 320, of Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. As of 2010, there are now 2 brushes only with this T number, ET714-0 and ET714-1 (some may now be part of ET11908?) Card indicates these are probably Tlingit, may be from S. E. Alaska? Handle of this brush is carved bone and wood; red paint still on brush bristles. Illus. Plate XLV-B, Fig. 254, after p. 320 in Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. Niblack identified carved handle as representing "Oolalla, the mountain demon."