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Listed on page 47 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: "This pipe has an elaborately carved bowl showing an animal and a human figure. It also seems to have been made for the tourist trade and was bought in San Francisco. Illus. in Barbeau, Haida Myths illus. in Argillite Carvings, NMC #127, p. 101. A bear-mother interpretation."
TWINED BASKET, DIAMOND PATTERN WASHINGTON-OREGON.
From card: "Ceremonial drinking cup (salt water) with cord handle made of Picea sitchensis [Sitka spruce]. Design - Two rows - "Shamans Hat" The row between "Tying Design" (Emmons)."
Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. The sticks included are yew and maple. Some are female and others are male. Tournaments are common and they last for a few days, participants gamble away horses and other belongings. The player that collects all the sticks will win. When people die in the interior country, their property is gambled away. This practice still occurs today.
SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO MUSEUM D'ETHNOLOGIE, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 1889.