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This object is asbestos contaminated.
From card: "Round baskets, tapering slightly inward toward flat base of plain plaited weave in flat cedar-bark strips, while sides are in wrapped twining on very thin strips. One [E395520-0] has design in purple of whales and men in boat, while other [E395520-1] is just green and red horizontal bands. One slightly damaged."
FROM CARD: "VERY BADLY DAMAGED. REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. HOUSE FRONT DECORATED IN PENCIL."
FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL DESIGN. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---SILVER BAND, 3/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLET; LAPPING-SPRING CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,542. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN." Illus. Fig. 35, p. 56 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Bunn-Marcuse identifies this bracelet as floral design and speculates that this type of design may be based on illustrated jeweler's pattern books of European designs available at that time.
FROM CARD: "46470-1. 46471 - DEPOSITED ON SEAWEED."
Resembles a New England round finger pantry box. with tacked/nailed joints. Box lid has two attached labels in James G. Swan's hand: "No. 38 35[?]¢. Box of yew with cedar top + bottom, made by a Haida Indian in imitation of box from old whale ship", and " No. , Made at Massett B.C. Collected by J. G. Swan July 9/[18]83".