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Wooden Food DishE20858A-0

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: HAIDA**. REMARKS: PROVENIENCE DATA FROM AN ORIGINAL MARK ON BOTTOM OF SPECIMEN. **DR. PHILIP DRUCKER SAYS THAT IT GENERALLY HAS A KWAKIUTL APPEARANCE, (BAE BUL.. 144, P. 72). 4/18/67 LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART. GALLERY, RETURNED 13/13/1967.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Klinkwan, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Seal Skin BuoyE72630-0

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885, HOWEVER A FLOAT WITH THIS NUMBER IS IN THE COLLECTION.Described p. 102 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-skin Buoy. Skin of hair-seal, small stationary wooden toggle at either end for holding eye-splice of harpoon-line. Small laniards made of fibers of spruce roots, for making fast to other buoys. Indian name, "Do-ko-kuptl." Length, 38 inches. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Inflated and attached to the harpoon, showing the manner in which the apparatus is used during the capture. A number of buoys being made fast to the whale prevents its progressive motions, thus affording the natives an opportunity to kill it with the lance (72674)."

Culture
Makah
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basketry BowlE168251-1

FROM CARD: "BASKET. 1 GIFT TO ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INSTITUTE, FEB. 14, 1903. ONE-EXCHANGE-MR. G. D. E. SCHMELTZ LEIDEN MUSEUM, LEIDEN HOLLAND. MAY 1899."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden Dish Or TrayE67897-0
BowE274443-0
House ModelE18905-0

FROM CARD: "18905-6. BOTH SPECIMENS BADLY DAMAGED. IDENTIFIED, REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. #18905 - PAINTED FRONT AND CARVED AND PAINTED CORNER POSTS."Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, 4-12-2012, this is an unusual model with wooden coppers on the corner posts and a set of figures that go with it, Tlingit in style. (The figures are Catalogue No. E18907-0).

Culture
Tlingit and Sitka
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Totemic-Carving, WoodE330640-0

From card: "Carving on slab of yellow cedar representing bear and frog toterus [sic, word probably should be "totems"]. Carved by Shock - ish."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE274623-0
Carved Wooden Pipe, Brass BowlE60204-0

Pipes E60200 - E60204, which do not have original numbers listed in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book, have been presumed to be from Hoonia/Hoonah by the person who typed the catalogue cards, based on the original artifact list in the accession file.

Culture
Tlingit and Hoonah
Made in
Hoonah, Chichagof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Dance Apron And Leggings Set: ApronE341202-0

FROM CARD: "WOVEN FROM GOAT FLEECE WITH PAINTED (DYED) DESIGNS IN BLACK, YELLOW AND GREEN. TWO ROWS OF PUFFIN BEAK BEADS AT ENDS OF BUCKSKIN FRINGE BORDER. RARE AND VALUABLE SPECIMEN. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967 RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 290, P. 219." FROM CROSSROADS CATALOGUE: "A WRAPAROUND APRON AND DECORATED LEGGINGS WERE OFTEN WORN BY THE NOBILITY ALONG WITH A CHILKAT BLANKET ON CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS. THE WOVEN PIECES OF THIS SET (OF DANCE APRON AND LEGGINGS) WERE ORIGINALLY PART OF A SINGLE BLANKET DEPICTING A DIVING KILLER WHALE, WHICH WAS PROBABLY CUT UP AND DISTRIBUTED TO GUESTS DURING A GREAT MEMORIAL POTLATCH. THE WOVEN PIECES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED WITH TRADE BLANKET MATERIAL AND BORDERED WITH SKIN FRINGES. PUFFIN BEAKS ATTACHED TO THE FRINGES RATTLED TOGETHER WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF THE DANCER."" Leggings illus. Fig. G, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=694 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Apron This dance apron was cut from a full-sized robe that was woven out of dyed mountain goat wool and cedar bark. Puffin beaks and leather fringes were added for sound and motion during dance performances. The Chilkat-style design represents a diving Killer Whale, according to Tlingit advisers. The head, including eyes, nostrils, and mouth, forms the two lowest tiers of the design. The central spirit face is the whale's body, and its flukes and dorsal fin are represented by the double eyes and other elements at the top of the weaving.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E341202-0 Apron and E341202-1 Leggings are both on loan.

Culture
Tlingit and Chilkat
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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