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Wooden PipeE74925-0

Abalone shell inlay. Killer whale and eagle or raven motif, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Bow And ArrowsE2766-0

FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED." Bow and 6 arrows.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Made in
USA ? or Canada ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Stone Sinker For Halibut LineE72659-0
Stone Whale, Small Not Broken When Rec'dE60130-0

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."

Culture
Tlingit, Chilkat ? and Sitka ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Ceremonial Headdress, From A GraveE306337-0

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."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Tuxekan, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Woman's-KnifeE153606-0

From card: "Made in Siberia." Collected in Sitka, Alaska. See E103563 for similar object.

Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA and Siberia, Russia
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Iron AdzeE20642-0

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)".

Culture
Bella Bella (Heiltsuk)
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE299037-0

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."

Culture
Quileute
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Bow & ArrowsE76296-0

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.

Culture
Makah
Made in
Neah Bay, Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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