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WhistleE274380-0
Painting-Stick (2)E168362-0

FROM CARD: "FOR THE FACE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 26 on list) appears to attribute this to the HoonahTlingit of "Khart-heene"? [speculatively, possibly a version of one of the place names Karheen???] List also identifies object as "Pattern sticks or stencils for marking face for festival or ceremonial occasions ... the stick is laid on the face and the color is applied around it."Listed on page 47 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 (Tools)".

Culture
Tlingit and Hoonah
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Woven Pack StrapET664-0

From card: "Salish? Red and black geometric motifs."

Culture
Salish ?
Made in
USA ? or Canada ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Pouch Made Of Sea Lion ThroatE88740-0

CATALOGUE IDENTIFIES AS MADE OF SEA LION THROAT, HOWEVER FRAN REED COMMENTS THAT THIS IS LARGE AND COULD BE WHALE INSTEAD, 2/1999.From card: "Fisnskeu." There is an original Swan tag attached to 88741, marked to indicate that the information applies to E88740, E88741, and E88742: "No. 37, 3 pouches made of throat of sea lion used for holding feathers for dancing. Tisn [or Fisn] skeu. Haida, Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, July 1883, 28 c each."

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Grass BasketE9223-8
Basket For Harpoon PointsE74207-0
Paddle With Leaf-Shaped BladeET24185-0

NWC?; PADDLE WITH LEAF-SHAPED BLADE (PROBABLY ONCE PART OF T14562 OR 3?).

Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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DishE260339-0

From card: "Wooden. Carved."Glued inside the dish is a label: "Sheldon Jackson Institute, An Industrial Training School for Indian Boys and Girls, Sitka, Alaska, 188."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basket With Rattle Lid (2)E324347-0

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
“Not Given” ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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HeadringE175515-0

FROM CARD: "OF A BEAR DANCE OF THE GUSGEMOX. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 112-A; P. 474."

Culture
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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