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