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FROM CARD: "IN SHAMAN'S BOX [# E68018]." Note re photo: Neg. #2000-6853 is a photo of 68011, 68014, 68015, 68016, and 68017. 68011 is in center of image.
No catalog card found in card fileAnthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this is a model of artifact E9813 (it seems similar to E9813-0), modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is presumably the model maker.Listed on page 45 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: "HALIBUT HOOKS--STRAIGHT WOODEN STOCK; STRAIGHT BONE SHANK LASHED TO LOWER END AT AN ANGLE OF ABOUT 45 DEGREES; NO BARB; LINE OF TWISTED BARK. L. STOCK 6 1/2", SHANK 4"."
Anthropology Catalogue ledger book entry for this object calls it "Bear's teeth ornament."
FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S. SEWING. IVORY HANDLE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 12 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Woman's awl ... Handle of ivory and pricker of steel. This awl is used by the women in all sewing of skins, furs ... the hole is made with the awl and the pointed thread is stuck through."Listed on page 48 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: "[Type] Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Well made square form, loop edge; design birds and canoes in black."
FROM CARD [for 1155 through 1159]: "WITH TWO MINIATURE BOTTLES..."
FROM CARD: "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.