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FROM CARD: "HORN."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on spoon # 1 of 2 with this catalogue number, http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=651, retrieved 8-26-2012: Ladle, Eyak Athabascan. This Eyak serving ladle from around the area around the mouth of the Copper River was molded and carved from the horn of a mountain sheep. It may have been used for serving at ceremonial meals.Spoon # 1 of 2 is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
Small ivory head with carved features, red cotton dress.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: "INVENTORIED 1976."Provenience uncertain. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies source of these boots as "Chilcot Indians." On the basis of that, it seems, culture in catalogue database has been listed as Tlingit, Chilkat? Note that an unknown person at an unknown time listed culture as Eskimo? on catalogue card.
FROM CARD: "CARVED IN-THE-ROUND: BEAR-SHAPED, WITH FRONT PAWS RESTING ON A FISH. PIPE BOWL OF BRASS." Fish is a salmon, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.Note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Sitka, not Chilkat. Source of Chilkat cultural ID on catalogue card is unknown, though it may be based on list in accession file? Current catalogue card appears to have been typed circa 1976?