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Models Of Basket WorkE7968-0

FROM CARD: "NAME: *ESKIMO DEER CARVING. MODELS OF BASKET WORK (7). REMARKS: *ESKIMO DEER ALSO HAS THIS #. ESKIMO DEER CARVING LOANED TO IAIA SANTA FE, NM 1 APRIL 1966. LOAN RETURNED NOV 28 1966."

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Twine Basket Of Spruce Root And Dyed GrassE272843-0

CATALOG CARD SAYS SENT AS A GIFT TO CHARLESTON MUSEUM, CHARLESTON, S.C., NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEP 1989.

Culture
Tlingit and Chilkat
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Goblet Or Wine GlassE21563-0

FROM CARD: "IMITATED IN STRAW PLAIT (2)." Old USNM tag with artifact identifies as "Wine glass imitated in straw [sic] plait."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket GrassE127851-0
Bow And ArrowsE2765-0

FROM CARD: "*TWO [of the original nine] ARROWS [sent to] TO TROCADERO [Museum], 1885. THREE OF REMAINING SEVEN MAY BE FROM CALIFORNIA. 8/17/66. INVENTORIED."Six arrows located in the collections.Original catalogue ledger book entry indicated this was supposed to be bow and arrows. See Cat. 7 p. 162 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. This entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.235, a bow, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E2765. See also Cat. 14 p. 165 in same Faucourt publication. This entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.418, an arrow, which their records identify as formerly E2765.

Made in
“United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain): California (not certain)” ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Halibut HookE103455-0

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.

Culture
“Not Given” ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Silver Buckle For BeltE19556-0

THIS BUCKLE HAS AN ENGRAVED INSCRIPTION ON THE BACK: "MADE BY KINOWEN A HAIDA AT KLEMMAKOAN VILLAGE ALASKA." KINOWEN IS DUNCAN KIN-O-AN OR GINAAWAAN, AND KLEMMAKOAN IS KLINKWAN, PER ROBIN K. WRIGHT. ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOGUE LEDGER BOOK IS BLANK FOR PEOPLE OR LOCALITY FOR THIS OBJECT. CATALOGUE CARD LISTS IT AS "SITKA INDS. ALASKA." THE MAKER OF THE CATALOGUE CARD MAY HAVE ASSUMED 19553-6 WERE FROM SITKA SINCE 19552 IS IDENTIFIED AS SUCH. - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999 Illustrated Fig. 4.34, p. 209 of Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright attributes to maker Duncan ginaawaan of Klinkwan, and notes that it is inscribed in James G. Swan's handwriting on the back: "made by Kinowen, a Haida at Klemmakoan village." Illustrated Fig. 139, p. 108 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Bunn-Marcuse identifies the buckle as collected by Swan in 1875 at Wrangell from a woman named Annie, who claimed to be a relative of Duncan ginaawaan.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Klinkwan, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Bear's CanineE209930-0
Double Reed, Dancing WhistleE88871-0
Covered BasketE395521-0

From Card: "395,521. Flat cylindrical baskets, two with partly plaited bases; the other plain—twined; walls of all in wrapped twining decorated with horizontal stripes of various colors worked into the pattern. Covers missing on two, and some rim damage."

Culture
Makah
Made in
Cape Flattery, Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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