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FROM CARD: "60167-71. #60167 (TLINGIT FEAST DISH) - ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888; PL. 38, FIG. 192, P. 316. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11/7/70. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. FROM: PAGE 52, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 30. TRAY WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 45 1/2 TLINGIT, HUTSNUWU, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED AUGUST 23, 1882. 60,167."
OCTOPUS BAG; FLORAL BEADWORK. FROM JAMES G. SWAN ORIGINAL TAG WITH ARTIFACT: "NO. 201 HAIDA INDIANS HUNTING POUCH. KULTL GEAR. SITKA INDIAN MANUFACTURE. SKIDEGATE, B.C. AUG. 30, 1883, JAMES G. SWAN, $1."Linda Wynne, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, Virginia Oliver, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This is an octopus bag, specifically used for hunting because of the strap. Florence noted that she made a bag similar to this one that took her over a month to complete, and wasn't as busy as this one with regards to the beadwork design. The bag has some large, size 10 beads, which were produced later on, and don't have the same good detail as smaller beads. Virginia commented that someone may have added beads to this bag after it was created in order to sell it. The button on this object could be a brass button taken from a military coat. This bag has double toes and was made with two needles, whereas beaders today usually use only one needle.
From card: "Represents a huge face, blackened with graphite relieved with white and red. Frame of rods, with sinew. Goes on over the head; eyes made to move [movable] by means of cords."
T-712; 7 LINES AND HOOKS, NW COAST (THE ORIGINAL T NO. 712 WAS DUPLICATED AND SO WAS CHANGED).
Listed on page 48 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)".
FROM CARD: "BELT.--ROPE OF TWISTED CEDAR BARK, ENDS FRAYED OUT AND TIED TOGETHER, AT THE LATTER POINT BEING AN IVORY SLIDE CARVED TO REPRESENT A FISH'S HEAD. WORN BY INDIANS. LENGTH, 5 FT. 8 INS. DIAM. OF ROPE, 1 IN. ALASKA, 1870. 9,285. COLLECTED BY DR. HOFF, U. S. ARMY. DEPOSITED BY ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM."