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FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELET.---SILVER BAND, 5/8 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLET, OPEN-SPRING CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAM., 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAM., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,540. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."
List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.
FROM CARD: "BIRD'S SKIN."
Originally catalogued as carved in the form of a seal, but reidentified as representing a sea otter by Stephen Loring in 2007. Otters typically float on their backs with hands together like this.
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. 1 GIFT ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INST., FEB. 14, 1903."