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From card: "The shape is not typical but the painting is of the Northwest Coast type. - R. Elder. Puget Sound - Bill Holm."
REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 624, describes this object as "stone hammer, formerly in use among Sitka Thlinkets." Dall also notes that he had about six inches sawed off the handle, to pack it better.
FROM CARD: "CHIEFS RATTLE, CARVED WOOD. DESIGN: THE RUSSIAN DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE; PAINTED RED, GREEN AND BLACK."Tlingit Chief's Rattle (Ceco'q), painted wood, with small pebbles or lead shot inside for rattles.
FROM CARD: "BELL AND TUBE MADE OF A BLOCK OF WOOD, SPLIT INTO HALVES LONGITUDINALLY. THE DOUBLE REED IS LARGE AND MADE OF PINE IN TWO SECTIONS. WHICH ARE LASHED TOGETHER AT THE BASE. IT IS PACKED WITH STRIPS OF CLOTH INSIDE THE TUBE JUST ABOVE WHERE THE BELL COMMENCES. THIS FORM OF AN INSTRUMENT WITH A BELL AND THE FORM OF THE DOUBLE REED IS PROBABLY COPIED FROM EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTS. SEE U.S.M. REPORT (NIBLACK) 1888, P. 330. LXI, NO. 327; ALSO WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART, P1, 72, FIG. 4."