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Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this as from Sitka, Alaska. Sitka was mistranscribed as Sitlsa on typed catalogue card.
FROM CARD: "2 IN POUCH."
Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.
FROM CARD: "A TYPICAL BLANKET OF THE GROUP WITH THE BASIC COLOR OF DARK BROWN INTO WHICH IS WOVEN THE MYTHOLOGICAL DISSECTED ANIMAL DESIGNS IN LIGHT BLUE-GREEN, AND YELLOW AND NATURAL WHITE. WIDE BORDER OF DARK GREEN; 15" WHITE FRINGE ON BOTTOM. THIS SPECIMEN PURCHASED IN JUNEAU ALASKA BY MRS. CROSS IN 1887 OR 1897."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=359 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: TLINGIT*. REMARKS: *ORIGINAL SWAN TAG ON ARTIFACT STATES: "NO. 55 1 BUCKSKIN POUCH EMBROIDERED WITH SILK, STIKINE INDIANS, FORT WRANGEL, ALASKA"."Embroidered with floral design.
FROM CARD: "$2.50. WOMAN-21-1/2" H. 4-3/4" W. 3" DIA. SHOES.-7"1.1-3/4" W. 3/4" DIA." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "FROM CHILCAT INDIANS. COOKS INLET ALASKA." THIS LISTING IS A BIT CONFUSING SINCE COOK INLET IS MORE TYPICALLY AN ATHAPASKAN OR ALUTIIQ (PACIFIC YUP'IK) AREA RATHER THAN A TLINGIT AREA? - F. PICKERING 11-3-2008