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From old James G. Swan tag with artifact: "1 very ancient rattle. Haida Indians Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. December 1884."
FROM CARD: "FROM BASKET (68) 20847."Basket E20847, identified as Hutsnuwu Tlingit from Admiralty Island, is Swan original # 68. Ledger book indicates that Catalogue #s E20906, E20907, and E20908 are also original # 68. Accession record entry indicates the basket # E20847 contained these toy spoons, dolls, and dish (E20906 - 8), therefore all these objects are being stored together as Tlingit for now. Note that E20906 had been first catalogued as Tsimshian (probably based on Ft. Simpson identification in Anthropology ledger book of paddles E20902 and 3).
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."
FROM CARD: "EX. CANTERBURY MUS, JUNE 1900. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; FIGS. 138-9; P. 410. NEG. #86-6978 & 86-6979."
E74330 and E74331 are probably the objects referred to in a John J. McLean letter dated October 15, 1884, filed in the accession file. McLean writes: "I enclose herewith bill for two large pieces of carved wood. The pieces are cut from the top of the broad corner posts of the regularly built Indian house. These specimens are the only ones to be found in the Ranche at Sitka ..."