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Twined BasketE379791-0

From card: "Overlaid designs in color forming banded figures consisting of triangles and [right-facing] swastika."Note: The swastika is usually considered a non-traditional Tlingit basket design symbol. It was popular in the early 20th century in Europe and North America as a good luck symbol but disappeared from use after it became negatively viewed because of its association with the Nazi party.

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden SpoonE360323-0
Old PipeE72426-0

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR 1888; Pl. 48, fig. 267, p. 322." Identified there as wood carved in shape of a dragonfly; copper bowl. Seal or sea lion motif per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Basketry HatE360685-0

Hat has a partial original tag which says "Mrs. Froh..., Pacific ... , 13 & Washi...". This is presumably "Mrs. Frohman". On p. 542 of Mason, Otis T., and Frederick V. Coville. 1904. Aboriginal American basketry: studies in a textile art without machinery. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. https://archive.org/details/aboriginalbasket00masorich , there is listed a Mrs. J. Frohman of Portland, Oregon, who is identified as having a collection of West Coast basketry and matting. She and her collection are also mentioned starting p. 259 in James, George Wharton. 1909. Indian basketry, and How to make Indian and other baskets. New York: Malkan. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3599575;view=1up;seq=265 ; a number of her baskets are also illustrated in this publication. On pp. 73 - 74 of Wray, Jacilee. 2012. From the hands of a weaver: Olympic Peninsula basketry through time. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10828042, Mrs. Frohman is mentioned as a basket collector, and it is also noted: "The Frohman Trading Company published a catalog [in 1902 etc.] offering "Alaska, California, and Northern Indian Baskets and Curios” for sale to both a wholesale and retail market." While a number of the above references refer to her as Mrs. J. Frohman, she is assumed to be the same person as the one listed on p. 36 in American Society of Curio Collectors. 1902 Yearbook where there is an entry under "Collectors of Indian Baskets" for "Mrs. I. Frohman, corner Thirteenth and Washington streets, Portland, Ore." See also "A Business Woman In Japan" in The sun. (New York [N.Y.]), 03 Dec. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1911-12-03/ed-1/seq-21/ .

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden Dish, SkateE88854-0

Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

Culture
Haida
Made in
Masset, British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketryE328086-0
Cedar Bark MatE681-0

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."

Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Awl, Carved HandleE60133-0

November 9, 1881 list in accession file lists 2 awls in the collection (called "punches"), one from Hoonia and one from Sitka. E60133 and E60134 appear to be those awls, but it is unclear which one is the one from Hoonia and which one is the one from Sitka.Illus. Fig. 40 p. 52 of Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Culture
Tlingit, Hoonah ? and Sitka ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE381738-0
Toy (Kantag) Container, BarkE43425-0

FROM CARD: "DUG UP ON THE SITE OF A DWELLING IN AN ABANDONED VILLAGE."

Made in
Stuart Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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