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Indian Grass MattingE54108-0
Wooden Dish, Long And Shallow, Old StyleE60167-0

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."

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Angoon, Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA ?; Kootznahoo, Alaska, USA ? or Killisnoo, Killisnoo Island, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Hunting Pouch - Octopus BagE89196-0

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.

Culture
Tlingit, Sitka and Haida
Made in
Skidegate, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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MaskE274256-0

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."

Culture
Indian
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Line And HooksET18064-0

T-712; 7 LINES AND HOOKS, NW COAST (THE ORIGINAL T NO. 712 WAS DUPLICATED AND SO WAS CHANGED).

Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Food SifterE274500-0

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)".

Culture
Indian
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Northwest Coast FishhookE280913-0
Robe Belt And Ivory SlideE9285-0

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."

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Stone Charm CarvedE74946-0
Glass Beads 16E391861-0