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Crown Of Bear's ClawsE20639-0

FROM CARD: "FOR MEDICINE MAN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---FLAT BAND OF THICK LEATHER, ON WHICH ARE SEWED IN ERECT POSITION, TIPS INWARD, THIRTY-SEVEN CLAWS OF BLACK OR GRIZZLY BEAR. FT. SIMPSON. CIRCUMFERENCE, 21 INS. HEIGHT, 3 1/2 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1875. 20,639. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

Made in
Fort Simpson, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Skin Whaling FloatET636-0

HAS CATALOG CARD.

Culture
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) ?
Made in
USA ? or Canada ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Bone Spearhead 2E127768-0

Provenience note: In the Fisher collection, Wrangell refers to a village in the Alaska Peninsula on Shelikof Strait. This is not the same place as the Wrangell located on Wrangell Island in the Tlingit area of Southeast Alaska.

Made in
Kuiukuk, Alaska, USA ? or Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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HeadringE175504-0

FROM CARD: "1ST HEADRING OF XANADGAMGILOS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 85; P. 453."

Culture
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Harpoon CaseE336588-0
Twined Cedar Bark BasketE344999-0
Gambling BoneE395494-0
Fish-HookE290382-0

Halibut hook.

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket-SlingE23471-0

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET STRAP.---A BAND MADE OF YARN OF VARIOUS COLORS WOVEN IN ZIG-ZAG DESIGNS, WITH A PLAITED ROPE ATTACHED TO ONE END. USED TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF HEAVILY LADEN BASKETS. THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE BASKET, WHICH IS HELD ON THE BACK BY THE WOVEN STRAP PLACED OVER THE FOREHEAD OF THE CARRIER. WIDTH, 2 3/4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 23,471. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

Culture
Clallam
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Ivory Doll-Head DressedE75447-0

List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.

Culture
Tlingit ? or Chilkat ?
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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