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From card: "This mask represents a bears head." Mask has movable eyes and lower jaw.
From card: "Of spruce root in the twined weave alternating with the checkered weave. Fitted with bear-hide handles (two). Used to carry berries on the back. From Kluckwan [presumably Klukwan] the Chilkat tribe, Tlingit, of southeastern Alaska."
FROM CARD: "FOR SHOOTING SALMON."Note that donor Lt. J. W. White's name is mistranscribed on catalog card and ledger book as "J. M. White".
From card: "...B) whale bone; curved shaft, circular carved head."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)".
Original label attached to artifact says "Janie Vandal [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.