Description of this object in accession record: "Pipe: Carving representing the 'Killer Fish Man', bowl piece of old musket barrel. Found in grave of Medicine Man 'Shu-an' [i.e. Shaman] in SE Alaska. 'Klinket.' "Per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009, carved design includes a salmon.

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Zigzag pattern in yellow and black."

Seems to be part of a fire set? See E209915, steel, which is identified as being for this flint.

Illustrated in Crossroads of Continents, fig. 374, pg. 273 , and described as "a killer whale amulet made from walrus ivory traded from the Bering Sea".From card: "This piece depicts a NW Coast 'killer' whale. There is a [wooden] copy of this piece [catalog number E]229546A. Loan: Lowie Museum (BC) 12/31/64 Loan returned: 2/15/66. Loaned to Vancouver Art Gallery 4/18/67Anthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this and E229546A are both models of artifact 9641, modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is presumably the model maker.

Card for E45963, catalogued as "Box With Medicine Man's Masks, Robe etc." indicates that "FOR CONTENTS OF THIS BOX SEE #45976-9."

FROM CARD: "? #13120 - SAND SAW ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL.60; PL. 17, NO. 5; P. 48."Listed on page 115 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Saw".