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Wooden MaskE73780-0
Knife, Handle Parts And BladeE74264-0
Carved Wood RattleE20874-0

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE, STAINED BROWN. DESIGN: A HUMAN HEAD. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 264. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."Accession file identifies original #90, Catalogue Nos. E20874 - 75, as 2 war rattles. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies them as from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people, which was transcribed on the catalogue card as Kountznow], Chatham Strait [listed as Chatham Sound on catalogue card], Alaska. Prince of Wales Island has been written on the artifacts themselves by the museum cataloguer and added to the catalogue cards. The catalogue entry on this object in "The Far North" exhibit catalogue, assumed the object was Tlingit, probably from Admiralty Island from the vicinity of Angoon, but noted that the reverse side of the rattle is inscribed Klemmakoon (which is a term Swan used for the Haida town of Klinkwan, which is on Prince of Wales Island.)This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=48 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Rattle, Tlingit This very large, round rattle may have been used during war to coordinate an attack or to strike fear and confusion into the enemy. George Ramos (Tlingit) said that rattles like this had been described to him as part of a war leader's outfit. Round stones were traditionally collected at low tide to put inside. The abstract designs may represent a whale or frog, but are difficult to interpret. During Elders discussions in 2005 (see web page cited above for transcription), Donald Gregory (Tlingit) and Delores Churchill (Haida) identified the wood as possibly alder.

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Canoe ModelE274415-0
Basket In ProcessE217331-0
Bone For Inflating Bladders "Koklh"E209894-0
Horn SpoonE20747-0

FROM CARD: "SPOON.---MADE OF GOAT HORN. THE HANDLE IS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE HORN IN ITS NATURAL SHAPE AND IS ORNAMENTED WITH CARVED TOTEMIC DESIGNS THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOULD. THE BOWL AND HANDLE ARE RIVETED TOGETHER. LENGTH, 10 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 7/8 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,747. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Cedar Bark Basket ShroudE392703-0

From card: "Twilled weave, plain flexible basketry bag woven cedar bark grommets. Bottom, rectangular checker weave. Woven presumably, as a burial shroud. Recovered with skull, mandible and atlas vertebra (in Physical Anthropology)."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Port Malmesbury, Kuiu Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Bark Boat BailerE316902-0