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CARD ORIGINALLY IDENTIFIED THIS AS "POLISHED MINERAL ORNAMENTS (2 PIECES)". ADDED TO CARD REMARKS LATER (?): "REDDISH-YELLOW COLORED CYLINDRICAL STONE BEAD."Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Card calls it "N.W. Coast of America", however it resembles magnesite stone beads in use in California.

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FROM CARD: "PARASOL-SHAPED. ORNAMENTED WITH A TOTEMIC DESIGN AT THE TOP, AND PAINTED IN SOLID COLOR ON THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTSIDE SURFACE." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 29. Exhibit label identified it as "Nootka type."

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FROM CARD: "PERFORATED FOR A HANDLE."Peale catalogue entry on artifact identifies it as: "Part of a deers horn [antler], used as a cross head to a stick for digging roots, by the Indian women in Oregon." Such digging stick handles are often made from elk antler. The handle would have been fitted with a sharpened wood stake and typically used by women to dig roots, clams, and other items. Note that this object is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 148 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.Speculatively, this may have been acquired by the expedition when it was in the Willamette valley of Oregon. Camas root digging sticks are mentioned on p. 234 of "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition," Charles Wilkes, 1845, Vol. V. If it is from that area, again speculatively, it may be from the Kalapuya.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)".

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