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Catalogue card indicates "Exchange - Lt. G. T. Emmons, USN, Princeton, New Jersey, Ja. 12, 1906." However, there is still an object in the collections with this number.
FROM CARD: "MADE OF THE HORN OF MOUNTAIN GOAT. DEPOSITED."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.
PLANK WITH 3 LARGE IRON NAILS FROM HOUSE OR LARGE BOX.
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."
From card: ""... with moveable [movable] eyes and mouth, ancient." Swan's desc. cat. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Spirit Mask - the Oolalla, Haida, collected 1883 at Tanu."
FROM CARD: "SAPPORO MUS. 1/26/95."Note, object was catalogued as Port Townsend, Washington, which is where collector Swan was based at that time. The accession record lists "Specimens of table mats from Sitka." as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, and thus possibly Tlingit?A list in Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 186, Box 11, Distribution 5103, indicates a mat and three baskets catalogue number 13111 were sent as part of an exchange to the Annecy Museum, Haute-Savoie, France, March 1887.