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Abalone shell inlay. Killer whale and eagle or raven motif, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.
FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED." Bow and 6 arrows.
FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *CHILKAT-SITKA ?" REMARKS *9/30/66: THIS SPECIMEN DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL MCLEAN INVENTORY (NOV. 9, 1881) THAT PROVIDES SPECIFIC PROVENIENCE FOR EACH ITEM. GEP."Note: catalogue card lists this object as "small, not broken when rec'd." However, Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies it as "small, and broken when rec'd."
From card: "Rope of cedar bark to which are attached skin of a bird and a carved wood figure. From a medicine man's grave."
From card: "Made in Siberia." Collected in Sitka, Alaska. See E103563 for similar object.
FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1Y, PG. 2." Handbook caption identifies as long-handled elbow hafted adze.Listed on page 50 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: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Seaweed both black and white over cedar bark foundation; design flying birds on sides, on lid swimming birds."
LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885. Ledger indicates 1 object with this number sent to T.F. Spangler 2-1886.According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.See Cat. 122 p. 195 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is one arrow, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.433, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76296.