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FROM CARD: "EX. CANTERBURY MUS, JUNE 1900. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; FIGS. 138-9; P. 410. NEG. #86-6978 & 86-6979."
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.Linda Wynne, Ruth Demmert, elder, and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The elders agreed that the beadwork on this object is loom woven, and commented that the bead design is similar to bead designs on octopus bags (e.g. E89196-0; E021581-0). There is a button to close the bag.
FROM CARD: "75CTS." FROM ACCESSION RECORD: :"'YALCH' OR INDIAN DEVIL. THIS REPRESENTS A SHAMAN OR DOCTOR DRESSED FOR A MASQUERADE TO REPRESENT AN EVIL SPIRIT."
Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.Listed on page 43 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".