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Stored with the Northwest Coast collections.
FROM CARD: "67891-2. NO. 67892 CAST. WORKINGMEN'S SCHOOL, N.Y., 11/30/95."Has hole for stringing. Appears to be in the form of a copper "shield."
18933 WRONG NUMBER BIRD (?) SPEARHEAD WRAPPED IN BARK, BONE BARBS. Stored Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "23409-410. ANIMAL FORM BOWLS; CARVED IN RELIEF." FROM CARD: 23409. FROM: PAGE 35, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 3. ANIMAL-FORM BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 10 3/4 ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JUNE 12, 1876. 23,409."
5 CYLINDRICAL SHELL BEADS. NWC? CALIF.?
From card: "Carved from the solid. Hardwood. Pained in green, vermillion and black. Hair tufts (now missing) inserted in a series of holes extending over apex of crown from ear to ear. Teeth, apparently of a white shell inserted in excavated trenches in upper and lower jaws. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. XIII, fig. 42, p. 270." Identified in the publication as a wooden helmet. Per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009, helmet is in form of a human with shark characteristics, including eyes with downturning outer corners, and gills, and back of helmet has carved shark formline imagery.Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Florence belives the owner of this helmet was Shark clan.
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. BELONGING TO 2 MASKS NO. 169105-6."
FROM CARD: "TROCADERO."