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From card: "Bowl-like shape with flat bottom and slightly flared convex sides. Coiled, splint foundation of many fine splints. Light brown with 5 panels of black each containing negative design of human figure dressed in skirt, all in light brown. Concentric single coils of black at bottom and top. Hole punched in center of bottom."
From card: "This is a copy of original specimen [E]229546B. The two pieces are identical depicting a NW Coast 'killer' whale." Copy made for exhibition purposes. Original is from Fort Tongass, Alaska.Anthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this and E229546B 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 47 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)".
From Card: "Cedar root, zig-zag pattern"