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Accession file identifies original #88, Catalogue Nos. E20870 - 73, as 4 baskets from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people], Alaska. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Chatham Strait.
Per Anthropology Catalogue ledger book, this is a model made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes of Catalogue No. E60120. Original identified as Hoonah and Hutsnuwu Tlingit, Alaska.
This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=591 , retrieved 11-28-2011: Neck Ring Ring of cedar bark rope adorned with two carved crests, Wolf and Eagle. Today, potlatch song leaders wear bark rings.
FROM CARD: "60141-42. 60,142: [From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND BUFFALO. IN SOME EXAMPLES, LITTLE WORK IS DONE UPON THE MATERIAL OTHER THAN CUTTING INTO SHAPE STEAMING, AND BENDING. AMONG THE TRIBES OF THE INTERIOR BASIN THIS IS SPECIALLY TRUE." (NOTE: THIS LABEL REFERRED TO SPECIMENS 8,489; 11,030; 11,228; 60,142)."
FROM CARD: "60167-71. #60167 (TLINGIT FEAST DISH) - ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888; PL. 38, FIG. 192, P. 316. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11/7/70. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. FROM: PAGE 52, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 30. TRAY WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 45 1/2 TLINGIT, HUTSNUWU, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED AUGUST 23, 1882. 60,167."
Accession file identifies original #93, Catalogue No. E20880, as a war club made of whales rib from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people]. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Admiralty Island, Alaska.