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Provenience note: locality recorded on the catalogue card is Sitka, however "Admiralty Is." is written on artifact itself by museum cataloguer.
HAS CATALOG CARD.
FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. EACH SECTION IS EXCAVATED FROM END TO END. WHEN BOUND TOGETHER FORMING AN OPEN TUBE, WHICH IS ENLARGED. A LOWEND AND AN OBOE OR DOUBLE REED FORMED OF PINE IN TWO SECTIONS IS LASHED TOGETHER AND FORCED IN THE OUTER END."
From card: "Skidgate collection."Incised and carved relief decoration on front, floral motifs, including compass-drawn motifs. Decorative bone inlays.
SHEEP SKIN EMMONS COLLECTION. Stored Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "APRIL 20, 1901 - ONE SPECIMEN SENT LT. G. EMMONS, PRINCETON, N.J., AS EXCHANGE. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; PL. 37; P. 548."
FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED. #724 ILLUS. IN J. SWAN, INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY SMITHSONIAN INST., 1869, FIG. 15, P. 34."For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.
May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."
NORTHWEST COAST-KNIFE SHEATH OF BROWN TWEED WITH RED WOOL BORDERS AND FLAP.