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Listed on page 42 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".
From card: "Bear, cormorant, and frog motifs."
From card: "Presented by Chief Edinsa [Edenshaw] of North Id., B.C. worn as ear ornaments. presented to Swan August 15, 1883. Illus. USNM AR 1888, Pl. VII, fig. 20, p. 260." Loan (incorrectly labelled as # E72993 - see back of card for 72993) for Crossroads of Continents exhibit Sep 22, 1988. Illus. (incorrectly labelled as 72993) Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 62, p. 60.
From old James G. Swan label glued onto artifact: "Indian wedge made of elk horn. Plowed up by Judge Albert Briggs Feb. 2_ [25? 29?] 1873 on his farm Port Townsend, W.T."
From card: :"Cedar bark. Part of a bride's outfit." DR. ANDREA LAFORET, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN, OTTAWA, NOTED 1-7-85: "THOUGH TLINGIT IS WRITTEN ON OBJECT THIS MAY BE A TSIMSHIAN HOOD WORN BY A PUBESCENT GIRL. TWO COMPARABLE PIECES EXIST; ONE IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN, OTTAWA, THE OTHER IN THE FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO.""
Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".From card, for E131001-0 and E131001-1: "Fibrolite? & slate."