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