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Catalogue card lists as Hutsnuwu/Kootznahoo, but Anthropology catalogue ledger book does not list that people/locality for this artifact, only for 60109 and 60111.
Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.
FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAIR PLUMES (2).---A NUMBER OF TRIMMED FEATHERS ATTACHED TO THE UPPER END OF A POINTED STICK BY WRAPPINGS OF STRING. LENGTH, 12 1/4 INCHES. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 46,497. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."It is unclear from records if E46496 and 46497 are related objects?
FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID. STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL OPERCULA. REVERSE EXCAVATED TO FIT NOSE, ALSO PERFORATED FOR BREATHING HOLE JUST BENEATH. VERTICAL ONE-FOURTH INCH DEEP GROOVES PERMITTING OVAL CURVATURE CUT INTO REVERSE SIDE. OVAL SHAPE, ENDS JOINED AT REAR WITH RAWHIDE THONG. PARTLY PLAIN, AND IN PART PAINTED IN VERMILLION. NEG. NO. 43,230F (FRONT) 43,230-G (RIGHT SIDE). NEG. NO. 43,021.16,222. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 256."