3149 WRONG NUMBER. 3 SEEDS FROM SITKA, ALASKA FROM MRS. COHEN; NOTE THAT THEY COULD BE DESTROYED 1905. Label from original container with artifacts: "3149 Sitka, Alaska, June 1880, Mrs. Cohen. Used as food by the Indians. They are said by Mrs. C. to taste like sweet potatoes when boiled. Parasitic plant. - Dr. Hough." Museum notes with artifacts include a brief one from a Dr. Rose to W.F. Wight asking if the seeds should be kept, and Wight's note of reply of Feb. 9, 1905 identifying the specimens as Boschniakia rossica Cham. + Schlecht. [Northern Groundcone, parasitic on the roots of trees] and noting that they are "hardly worth keeping as we have a number of good ones."

Described p. 101 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Harpoon Head And Laniard. Head, apparently a piece of an old saw blade, covered with a coating of spruce gum. Laniard, sinews of the whale served with twine made from fibers of nettle to render it impermeable to water. Barbs, elk bone; sheath, bark. Length, 20 feet. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Used by natives for fastening seal-skin buoys to whales."

From card: "Dentalium necklace with black beads."From typed card with artifact: "Dentalium ornament. This specimen was found assigned a t-number (T-1226). The original number '711' appears on the fourth row of dentalium to the right of the end sewn with blue print cloth, sixth shell from the top. This appears to be an original # rather than a cat. # because cat. 711 corresponds to a N.W. Coast ear pendant collected by Gibbs. The specimen was found within the Plains Indian collection. Due to the combination of dentallium with the strings of solid black beads, the object is probably not Plains, but Pacific coastal (Salish, etc..). Though identification is not possible at present, this piece should be taken from the Plains until a proper tribal designation can be found. 7/23/84 Lee Miller."

From card: "Double points such as are used on two-pronged salmon spear."

FROM CARD: "23479-80. #23480 - ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, P1. XIII, P. 306."