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FRAGMENTS OF STRANDS OF DENTALIUM SHELLS AND GLASS BEADS. NORTHWEST COAST?
This appears to be a pipe?
From card: "Same as "A" except thinner, and the carving on the face, across the center only, represents a bird with wing spread above, and a large hooked beak - Right edge, in front of the beak, has a minor split off. Loaned to IAIA Santa Fe, NM April 1, 1966. Loan Returned Nov 28 1966. Loaned to the Whitney Museum of American Art on Sept. 10, 1971. Returned to the Department of Anthropology 2-9-72. Loan Glenbow Nov 13 1987. Loan returned Nov 25 1988. Illus.: The Spirit Sings catalogue, Glenbow-Alberta Inst., 1987, #N8, p. 134. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 5b, pg. 460."
STONE BALL, APPARENTLY CARVED AND POLISHED. WEIGHT 1.5 LBS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG.FROM CARD: "THE OLD CATALOG SAYS: 'WROUGHT STONE BALL, FOUND ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON'."
From card: "Half of an old box top, the front portion laid with the different teeth of a sea otter. Such pieces are very old and are greatly prized by the natives who upon occasions of ceremony and the distribution of property, present them to the more honored guests as gifts."Emmons talks about this artifact in his letter of May 28, 1902, written from Victoria, B.C., filed in the accession file. He identifies it there as from the Blunden Harbor [sic] Kwakiutl.