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Identified as of probable Makah manufacture by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003
From card: [Original] "Of marble, held a long time in the Tagwayta family of the Hootz-ah-tai-gwan, through many generations of chiefs. Original purchased from G. T. Emmons (Cat. No. 221181, Acc. No. 41512)." Original is Tlingit from Killisnoo, Alaska.
FROM CARD: "SHELL. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 9, NO. 5; P. 48."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 32 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Type of old spoon, consisting of a small clam shell set in wooden handle lashed with spruce root."Listed on page 42 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".
FROM CARD: "BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 13 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as used for netting webbing of snow shoes.
Accession record identifies as Chilkaht Alaska. It is unclear if Chilkaht is a cultural identification, a place, or both.
From card: "The bag is made of the foot skin of a bird; top of buckskin. Has embroidered beadwork the word "Sitka". Possibly tourist piece."