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FROM CARD: "3 ARROWS IN COLLECTION. 8/17/66."3 arrows with bone points remain in the collection: 1 arrow has a barbed bone point; 1 arrow has twin barbed bone points, and 1 arrow has a barbless bone point.
FROM CARD: "THIS THE COMMON TYPE OF TLINKIT DUGOUT CANOE, CALLED IN TLINKIT: SITC, IN YAKUTAT: SPRUCE. THE SLIGHTLY LOWER END IS THE PROW, EVEN THOUGH THE ANGLE OF EACH IS NEARLY THE SAME. HAS THREE THWARTS*, PAINTED RED AND BLACK INSIDE. *A FOURTH ONE IS MISSING."
Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies baskets E222033-0 and E222034-0 as berry baskets collected (probably purchased?) in Victoria, B.C.. Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card for E222034-0 attribute basket to Southeast Alaska. In a letter of July 16, 1903 from Sitka, Alaska filed in accession file 41512, Emmons mentions two baskets that may be E222033-0 and E222034-0. He mentions that he is sending two very old Chilkat berry baskets to the Smithsonian.
AS OF 2006, CAT. # 7965 CONSISTS OF ONE COLUMN OF 5 CYLINDRICAL WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS, AND ONE COLUMN OF 6 WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS. THESE OBJECTS ARE SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," AND ARE USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. IT MAY BE THAT ONE OF THESE SHOULD ACTUALLY BE CAT # 7964?, WHICH WAS NOT LOCATED DURING THE INVENTORY. -F. PICKERING 5-10-2006