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2 PLASTER PLAQUES PAINTED BLACK: WOLF-LIKE HEADS, CARVED DESIGNS.
FROM CARD: "NET. SINEWS."
Small ivory head with carved features. Beige cotton calico print shirt and skirt.List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.
This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Fish Hook. Bent wood with iron barb lashed with spruce root."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=676 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Halibut hook, Tlingit This is a southern style of halibut hook, used occasionally by the Tlingit but more commonly by the Haida and other Northwest Coast peoples as far south as Washington. It was made from a single piece of bent wood, with an iron barb and spruce root lashings.
From card: "Rather roughly worked from horn by bending."