FROM CARD: "CARVED. WORN BY MEDICINE-MAN."List in accession file identifies #s 34 (E168370), 35 (E168371), and 36 (E168372) as "Bone necklaces worn by medicine men when practicing about the sick." Old museum tag with E168370 identifies this object as Tanana (i.e. Athabaskan). The heading above the listing for #33 (E168369) says: "These three pieces [which is presumed to apply to #33, 34, and 35] were brought by the Chilkaht Indian traders + packers from the Gunannao? [word hard to read] people who live about the headwaters of the Yukon River." The museum cataloguer has interpreted Gunannao to be Gonaho, i.e. Gunahoo/Gunaaxoo or the Dry Bay Tlingit, and has listed that designation for E168369 - E168373. It may be instead that this is a version of the word Gunana, i.e. Athabaskan (including Tutchone, Tagish ...), as the Chilkat traded with them. The Yukon River location seems to support this, as that would apply to the Athabaskans, not the Gunaaxoo Tlingit. (See p. 57 in Emmons, George Thornton, and Frederica De Laguna. 1991. The Tlingit Indians. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 70. Seattle: University of Washington Press.)

Appears to be in the form of a baby? bird. Wood with abalone shell inlay.

PUBLICATION: MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, 1987-89.FROM CARD: #2614 - COWLITZ TYPE BASKET. SEE USNM A.R. 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, O.T. MASON, PAGE 432. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 9, PG. 511." From second card: "[Identified as] Cowlitz? *Based on comparision with other specimens. *See USNM A.R. 1902, Aboriginal American Basketry, O.T. Mason, pg. 432. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 9, pg. 511." ILLUS. FIG. 10, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 OF "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED OVAL BASKET, COWLITZ, IMBRICATED DESIGN IN FOUR FIELDS. LID IS MISSING. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.Illus. Fig. 9.10, p. 208 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption identifies as Cowlitz coiled and imbricated basket of cedar root, bear grass, and horsetail root. "The shape and use of four design fields mark it as an early Cowlitz style."

FROM CARD: "*CHILKAT. STONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 18 on list) appears to attribute this to the Stikine Tlingit of Wrangell.