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FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD. DESIGN: AN ANIMAL'S HEAD PAINTED RED, GREEN, WHITE AND BLACK."
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. 1 GIFT ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INST., FEB. 14, 1903."Listed on page 45 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)".
From card: "Used to lay off designs on surface to be painted. April 1963 an unnumbered bundle of cedar bark was found in the collection, and it was marked as ? this or No. [209]664." List in accession file identifies object as #49, "cedar bark stencil used to lay off design on surface to be painted."
FROM CARD: "CLASP BROKEN. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF SILVER COIN, HAMMERED OUT FLAT AND TURNED INTO REQUIRED SHAPE. ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC CARVINGS. SECURED ABOUT THE WRIST BY A CLASP. WIDTH, 2/3 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,541. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."
Accession file identifies original #88, Catalogue Nos. E20870 - 73, as 4 baskets from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people], Alaska. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Chatham Strait.