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FROM CARD: "16388-92. 16391 ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1B, PG. 2."Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 606, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.
Listed on page 45 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)".
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this as from Sitka, Alaska. Sitka was mistranscribed as Sitlsa on typed catalogue card.
From card: "Carved wood, in two longitudinal sections. There is a passage from end to end and a wooden double reed packed in the tail. The two sections lashed together. Design: Orca the whale killer (a.k.a. killerwhale), its eyes and nostrils are inlaid with copper. The upper part of body is stained black, the lower part the natural color of the wood."