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TWINED LID WITH FALSE EMBROIDERY. Stored Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "MORTAR FOR TOBACCO & SNUFF."
Basket has original label attached to artifact that says "Maggie Yeltatsi [presumably maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska. Deborah Ann Head, 6-3-2009, notes that Yeltatsi is a Haida last name, and Howkan is a Haida area.
FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, WITH THREE THWARTS, PAINTED RED INSIDE, AND BLACK AROUND THE CENTER 3/4 OF THE OUTSIDE. HAS THE TYPICAL CONCAVE PROW LINE OF THE BOATS OF THESE INDIANS. THIS IS A SEA-OTTER HUNTING CANOE. INFORMATION FROM: DR. F. DE LAGUNA. 11/1963."
Accession file identifies original #93, Catalogue No. E20880, as a war club made of whales rib from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people]. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Admiralty Island, Alaska.
From card: "Cedar bark woven."Original label attached to artifact says "Polly Skulka [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town. Skulka/Skultka is usually a Haida name.