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Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.
NO NUMBER; NORTHWEST COAST-2 COPPER AND BRASS TWISTED BRACELETS.
FROM CARD: "25 CTS. ."
FROM CARD: "SCALE OF MODEL 1 INCH EQUALS 1 FOOT: SIZE OF ORIGINAL: 36' L.,25" D., PADDLES 8'9" TO 9'9" L. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL.7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 6, PG. 245. REFER: COLLIN'S MS. P. 918. USNM. BULL.127, P.221, FIG.67." Handbook of North American Indians photo caption identifies as a model of a Northern canoe. Model has a mast.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by George Gibbs during his time on the Northwest Boundary Survey, 1857-1860?Canoe model appears in Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=1 , retrieved 6-24-2012.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.
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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)".
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)".