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FROM CARD: "PROBABLY OF CEDAR, 3 FEATHERED, 3 BLACK AND RED BANDS AT BASE OF FEATHERS. HEAD EXPANDED INTO A 9 SIDED, 1" W. CONE, WHICH THEN TAPERS OFF SHARPLY TO THE ACTUAL RELATIVELY SHORT POINT. THIS SPECIMEN WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED HAWAIIAN BUT APPARENTLY WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE DATA AND IT HAS NO RELATIONSHIP TO THAT AREA.- 5/1961 DR. DON MARSHALL." LEDGER BOOK MAKES IT CLEAR THAT 3 ARROWS WERE ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS #338761, HAWAIIAN. AS INDICATED ABOVE, ONE OF THESE ARROWS (APPEARS TO BE A BIRD ARROW?) WAS EXAMINED IN 1961 AND RECATALOGUED AS "NORTHWEST COAST OF CANADA." HOWEVER, IT APPEARS THAT THE OTHER 2 ARROWS WERE NOT EXAMINED AT THAT TIME AND THEY ARE NOT IDENTICAL TO THE ONE DESCRIBED. - F. PICKERING 6-20-1997
Written on artifact itself in old handwriting: "Scoop for bailing out canoe. Haida Indians. Queen Charlotte Id. J.G. Swan." Accession record also mentions 1 Haida bailing scoop as being part of this collection.
FROM CARD: "43234-6. # 43236-WITH HANDLE."
Cylindrical open twined basket, cedar bark?, Northwest Coast. Stored with Kwakiutl.
From card: "Brittle; small section broken out; painted with characteristic designs in red, black, blue, and green." In a 1937 letter in the accession file, the donor notes that she purchased this "more than 30 years ago" and identifies it as from Sitka.
HAS CATALOG CARD.