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FROM CARD: "VERY BADLY DAMAGED. REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. HOUSE FRONT DECORATED IN PENCIL."
FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL DESIGN. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---SILVER BAND, 3/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLET; LAPPING-SPRING CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,542. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN." Illus. Fig. 35, p. 56 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Bunn-Marcuse identifies this bracelet as floral design and speculates that this type of design may be based on illustrated jeweler's pattern books of European designs available at that time.
FROM CARD: "BRASS STUDS FOR EYES; FACE PAINTED BLUE; EYEBROWS, BLACK; MOUTH AND CARVED TEETH, RED. LEATHER TIES IN BACK. LEFT SIDE BROKEN; NATIVE MEND."
Listed on page 50 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)".
Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.