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BasketE324689-0
Wood CarvingE221183-0

From card: "Carved face of bear in intaglio. This was one of two carvings on the walls of the lower platform of an old house in Sitka. The family [i.e. clan] The Kar-Kwan-tou [listed as Kar-qwan-ton in accession record] have the bear totem. The teeth are the opercula of shells. Loaned to the Whitney Museum of Art on Sept. 10, 1971. Returned to the Department of Anthropology 2-9-72."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Lot Of Gambling Sticks 58E18908-0

FROM CARD: "IN A LEATHER BAG."

Culture
Tlingit and Sitka
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Old Water-Basket, Woman'sE209559-0
Woven PlaqueE361585-0
Table MatE20726-4

FROM CARD: "EX. CANTERBURY MUS, JUNE 1900. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; FIGS. 138-9; P. 410. NEG. #86-6978 & 86-6979."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Beaded Hair-Ornament For WomanE209552-0
BasketE395508-0
Basketry BowlE364375-0

From card: "Twined with decorative designs in woolen yarn wrapping."Catalogued as a basketry bowl, however object currently with this number is a basket twined over a long-necked glass bottle. Atypical for Tlingit; could be Aleut?

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Stone SealE127612-0

Accession record describes this object as the "stone image of a seal, worn and used by a Thlinket Indian of Sitka as a head-scratcher."Listed on page 46 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 (Tools)".

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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