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Slate Totem-Pole ModelE88984-0

From card: "Bear, raven, and hawk motifs."

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden BowlE23410-0

FROM CARD: "23409-410. ANIMAL FORM BOWLS; CARVED IN RELIEF." FROM CARD: FROM CARD: "23410. FROM: PAGE 35, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 4. ANIMAL-FORM BOWL. WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF. LENGTH: 10 3/4 ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JUNE 12, 1876. 23,410."

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket MatE360850-0
New Hat, UnpaintedE88960-0

Catalog number 88960 [part numbers E88960-0 through E88960-3] are four hats of a similar style. One of the four hats is illustrated (small) as Hat 112, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Masset, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Silver Bracelets 2E20252-0

FROM CARD: "20252A-2.9CM WIDE, WITH CLASP, SCROLL DESIGN. 20252B-3.3 CM. WIDE WITH CLASP, SCROLL DESIGN. ONE ILLUS.: FIG. 10.5, P. 177 IN NORTHERN ATHAPASKAN ART BY KATE DUNCAN, UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 1989. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELETS (2).---SILVER BAND, FITTED WITH HOOK-AND-EYE CLASP, AND EXTERIOR CHASED AND ENGRAVED AFTER MODERN PATTERN. DIAMS., 2 1/4 AND 1 13/16 INS. BREADTH, 9/16 TO 1 1/8 INS. CASSIAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,252. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN FOR CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, 1876. MADE BY A HAIDAH INDIAN, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. SULLIVAN, GOLD COMMISSIONER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA." 20252A illus. Fig. 56 and 57, p. 75 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Identified as design with foliate patterns.

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE274646-0
Fish-HooksE74189-0

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1/5 SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885. LEDGER, CATALOG CARD, AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO E. LOVETT, GREAT BRITAIN. 1888.See Cat. 151 p. 204 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. It indicates that the object formerly E74189 that was exchanged with the Trocadero Museum has not been located in the Musee Du Quai Branly collections.

Culture
Makah
Made in
Neah Bay, Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden SpoonE16254-0

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Beaded Flannel PouchE316632-0

From card: "Floral design on red flannel." Note: small drawing of bag is on reverse of catalogue card.

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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KnifeE168353-0

FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S NO. 168353 FOR BASKET MAKING. (HUTZAUWU)."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 16 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Woman's knife of iron ... used in basket making by woman and also as a skin dresser and for a variety of purposes."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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