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Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 605, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1893 PL. 16 & 17; P. 642."
FROM CARD: "$12.00. TWO SEPARABLE PIECES, FORMING A WHOLE. UPPER PART - 29" H. 4-3/4" W. 4-1/4" DIA. BASE-17-1/4"1. 5-1/4" W. 4-3/4" H. REPAIRED AND RESTORED AT CONSERVATION 3/23/1973." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA. KYGANI BRANCH OF THE HAIDA FAMILY OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS."From tag in James Swan's hand with artifact: "Fur seal hunter with a seal in his hands nearly split in two. The hunters feet rest on the bears head, and the whole stand on the back of the sea lion. This interesting group is from the Prince of Wales archipelago and an allegorical and descriptive. No 19 $12.00."
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.
From card: "Model of # 127,613. Chilkat [Tlingit]. [For exhibit] L. P. Exposition, St. Louis, 1904." Card indicates manufactured in Anthropology Lab by C. R. Luscombe.Listed on page 41 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".