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FROM CARD: "FROM A HEMLOCK FUNGUS."List in accession file identifies this as # 71 - "Specimens of Indian paint made from the fungus which grows on hemlock trees. This is roasted in hot ashes half an hour, when it turns Indian red color."
FROM CARD: "HANDLE CARVED WITH THREE IMAGES REPRESENTING TOTEMIC ANIMALS. LENT TO MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA 5/18/64." Loan returned 2012.
Identified as of probable Makah manufacture by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK."Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit object may originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.
FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "EAR-RINGS (2).---MADE OF SILVER, MUCH AFTER MODERN PATTERN; BELL-SHAPED PENDANTS; SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP. SITKA INDIANS. EXTREME LENGTH, 1 5/8 INS. LENGTH OF PENDANT, 1 1/16 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,548. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."
Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 608, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.