Anthropology Conservation Lab records identify as Northwest Coast. Stored Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "ALMOST IDENTICAL TO 169,106. THIS ONE USED IN THE SECOND DANCE. REF: USNM. REPT. 1895, PL. 31, OPP. P. 448." Illustration in USNM Annual Report for 1895 may be viewed online: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8902641 .Raven Hamat'sa Mask.

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67922 - 5. Catalogue card lists a locality of Kootznahoo. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct.

From card: "From the collection of Capt. Frederic Forsyth of Portland, Maine. Totemic carvings of squirrel, eagle, and a mythical creature. Illus. in ARSI, 1930; Pl. 17, upper left; p. 556. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 275." Illus.: Fig. 409, p. 294 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: Ceremonial raven pipe, Tlingit. "This pipe, carved as mythical Raven in partly human form, is monumental in concept but only eight centimeters high. Animal ears top his head, but human ears and tiny feet show him in a state of transformation. He grasps a human head with raven's claws. His formline wing and tail carvings cover him like a painted robe. Few objects epitomize the ceremonial, social, and aesthetic concepts of Tlingit art as well as this."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=692 , retrieved 11-28-2011: Pipe bowl After Western contact Tlingit carvers made crest pipes for smoking imported tobacco. The pipe bowl represents Raven grasping a human head; a hollow twig would have been used for the pipe stem. Smoking was part of many feasts and ceremonies.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Information below is from the 2008 Anthropology Conservation treatment report by Michele Austin-Dennehy: The bowl was examined by Melvin Wachowiak of the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute on 10/10/2008 at ACL. He examined the bowl on the gross level and with the stereomicroscope. The gross characteristics are consistent with black walnut. The anatomical features are fairly distinct, even through the coating and wear. He is fairly certain that it is black walnut. A very similar pipe with the same height and similar style is pictured noting that the wood for the pipes often came from walnut musket barrels that made fine pipe bowls because the walnut was a fine carving wood. See p. 100 of Holm, Bill 1983 The Box of Daylight, Northwest Coast Indian Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

From card: "Weave - Diagonal twined weaving. Materials - Vine maple." [Small photo of basket is glued to back of card.]

COILED BASKET WITH IMBRICATION AND BEADING MADE OF CEDAR ROOT, BEARGRASS AND HORSETAIL ROOT. THE RIM CONSTRUCTION IS FALSE BRAID, BOTTOM CONSTRUCTION IS MEANDER COIL WITH BEADING OF BEARGRASS NEAR THE EDGE. THE RIM DESIGN CONSISTS OF SMALL BLACK, SINGLE AND STACKED SQUARES OVER WHITE. THE BODY DESIGN CONSISTS OF A "SNAKE" MOTIF OF TWO BLACK LINES ON FULLY IMBRICATED WHITE BACKGROUND. THERE ARE FOUR BROKEN LEATHER LOOPS ATTACHED TO THE RIM. PUBLICATION: "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. U.S.N.M. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, OTIS MASON, FIG. 157, P. 432. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. A NOTE IN THE ORIGINAL S.I. LEDGER READS, "BASKET USED FOR COOKING." ILLUS. FIG. 9, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED BERRY BASKET, COWLITZ?, TOTAL IMBRICATION AND WHITE BACKGROUND WITH ZIGZAG PATTERNS CALLED "SNAKE" DESIGN BY MANY OF THE SALISH. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.