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From card: "One of the two painted ones, carved, one side only. Refer to: 231038 [card] for collecting data."
Listed on page 51 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".
FROM CARD: "STYLE OF FIGURE ALLUDES TO TSIMSHIAN INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. JUNE 21, 1967 - CAROLE KAUFMANN."
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."
Provenience note: In the Fisher collection, Wrangell refers to a village in the Alaska Peninsula on Shelikof Strait. This is not the same place as the Wrangell located on Wrangell Island in the Tlingit area of Southeast Alaska.
From card: "The paddle is painted with the typical northwest coast conventionalized design. It is a poor specimen and recently made, probably for the tourist trade."See similar paddle E361719, probably the same maker.