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Original list in the accession file identifies the dentalium shells as "... from the Northwest Coast (north of California). Used by the Indians of that region, under the name of "Haiqua", as ornament and money". Rau acquired from Col. Charles C. Jones Jr.
Illustrated in Crossroads of Continents, fig. 374, pg. 273 , and described as "a killer whale amulet made from walrus ivory traded from the Bering Sea".From card: "This piece depicts a NW Coast 'killer' whale. There is a [wooden] copy of this piece [catalog number E]229546A. Loan: Lowie Museum (BC) 12/31/64 Loan returned: 2/15/66. Loaned to Vancouver Art Gallery 4/18/67Anthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this and E229546A are both models of artifact 9641, modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is presumably the model maker.
Listed on page 48 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".