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“4 pr. salad spoons and forks carved in wood by Koloshian Indians.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.
FROM CARD: "LEAFY SCROLL DESIGN NO CLASP. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (2)---SILVER BANDS, 15/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; OPEN-SPRING CLASPS; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 1/4 TO 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 TO 2 1/8 INS. ALASA, 1875. 19,534 AND 19,535. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."
“4 pr. salad spoons and forks carved in wood by Koloshian Indians.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.
FROM CARD: "18905-6. BOTH SPECIMENS BADLY DAMAGED. IDENTIFIED, REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. #18905 - PAINTED FRONT AND CARVED AND PAINTED CORNER POSTS."Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, 4-12-2012, this is an unusual model with wooden coppers on the corner posts and a set of figures that go with it, Tlingit in style. (The figures are Catalogue No. E18907-0).
FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: **CHILKAT-SITKA? REMARKS: *COMPARE TO 'SLAVE KILLER' #67826 AS A CLUB HEAD FRAGMENT. **9/30/66: THIS SPECIMEN DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL MCLEAN INVENTORY (NOV. 9, 1881) THAT PROVIDES SPECIFIC PROVENIENCE FOR EACH ITEM. GEP."
November 9, 1881 list in accession file lists 2 awls in the collection (called "punches"), one from Hoonia and one from Sitka. E60133 and E60134 appear to be those awls, but it is unclear which one is the one from Hoonia and which one is the one from Sitka.Illus. Fig. 40 p. 52 of Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
FROM CARD: "IN A LEATHER BAG."
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL 60; P1. 24, NO. 10; P. 48."Listed on page 49 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: "LEAFY SCROLL DESIGN. NO CLASP. ILLUS.: FIG. 10.5, P. 177 IN NORTHERN ATHAPASKAN ART BY KATE DUNCAN, UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 1989. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (2)---SILVER BANDS, 15/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; OPEN-SPRING CLASPS; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 1/4 TO 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 TO 2 1/8 INS. ALASA, 1875. 19,534 AND 19,535. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."