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FROM CARD: "45999A,B. 999A: CARVED BOWL, CARVED IN RELIEF. 45999A,B. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. 45999A. FROM: PAGE 58, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 41. CARVED BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 9. TLINGIT, SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED DECEMBER 27, 1881."
From card: "Cedar bark woven."Original label attached to artifact says "Tommy Smith [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.
FROM CARD: "CARVED STANDING WOODEN FIGURE; HANDS RAISED IN FRONT OF CHEST; UNPAINTED. REMAINS OF HAIR ON TOP OF HEAD. WEARING SKIN KILT WITH TINKLERS AND TWO CLOAKS PAINTED IN RED & BLACK TOTEMIC DESIGNS. NECKLACE OF CARVED BONE AND TEETH. WOODEN "POT-LATCH HAT" PAINTED IN RED AND BLACK ON HEAD."
From card: "Box constructed after European fashion; lid with leather hinges. Lashing of cord remaining."Appears to contain cremated remains?
FROM CARD: "NAME: *BLADE OF STONE NEPHRITE PICK. REMARKS: *COMPARE TO 'SLAVE KILLER' #67826 AS A CLUB HEAD."
FROM CARD: "OF FLAT COILS OF PLAITED CEDAR BARK."From old label attached to artifact: "Gorgets and Collar of Plaited Cedar Bark for Indian Doctor, Pr. Wales Is., Alaska J.G. Swan."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?
From card: "Gambling Sticks in caribou case (double pocket) from Tahltan - the Tahltan people of the upper Stikine River where the Tahltan River joins it. Illus. in: Hndbook. of N. Amer. Indian, Vol. 6, Subarctic, Fig. 17, pg. 386." Identified as Tahltan in Handbook illustration caption.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=665, retrieved 8-23-2012: Gambling sticks and pouch, Tahltan Athabascan. Tahltan Athabascans played a traditional gambling game similar to that of their Tlingit neighbors, involving a trump stick and others shuffled beneath shredded cedar bark. This tanned caribou hide bag has a pocket at each end to hold the smooth wooden playing sticks, which are marked with black and red designs to designate their names and values. The bag is decorated with red flannel and glass beads and was made to hang over the shoulder.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Illus. Fig. 9.6, left, p. 151 in Yanicki, Gabriel & Ives, John. "Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. " In Prehistoric games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica, ed. Barbara Voorhies. University of Utah Press, 2017, 139 - 162.