3 PUFFIN BEAKS PROBABLY BROKEN OFF A COSTUME.

HAS CATALOG CARD. Card indicates that there were originally 12 paint brushes with this T number, a number of which were illustrated in Plate XLV-B, after p. 320, of Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. As of 2010, there are now 2 brushes only with this T number, ET714-0 and ET714-1 (some may now be part of ET11908?) Card indicates these are probably Tlingit, may be from S. E. Alaska? Handle of this brush is carved bone and wood; red paint still on brush bristles. Illus. Plate XLV-B, Fig. 254, after p. 320 in Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. Niblack identified carved handle as representing "Oolalla, the mountain demon."

FROM CARD: "WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76."FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 79, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG, RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 70. BOX WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT HEIGHT: 11 1/2 (TLINGIT), SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 20, 1876. 20,751."

From card: "This is made of [mountain] goat's horn. No carving. This specimen carries museum no. 274,171 which was an exchange to V. J. Evans." Formerly part of the E. H. Harriman Collection, Accession # 54171 for year 1912. See former catalog number 274171. Note: Harriman Accession was collected by John Green Brady, 1878 - 1909.

From card: "Of wood, carved to represent a sea offer [sic, should be sea otter, not offer]. Carried to kill fish before taking into canoe." Illus. Fig. 412, p. 295 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: Killer Whale Fish Club, Tlingit. "Clubs of hardwood, sometimes elaborately carved as animals or spirit allies, were used to kill halibut and salmon. Seals and sea otter were killed the same way. Very often these carvings took the form of predators like sea lions or killer whales - animals that feed on salmon and seals."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=664, retrieved 3-31-2012: Fish Club. Halibut fishermen used wooden clubs to kill or stun their catch; otherwise a heavy, struggling fish might turn over the canoe. The clubs were often beautifully carved, like this one which bears the image of a sea otter. "They didn't want to spoil the head because they were going to cook it, so they were very careful where they hit it [a halibut]. / Yeah, right here in the nostrils. That stunned it and then you turned it over so the belly side was up and then it didn't fight as much. If you leave it belly side down then it bangs the boat a lot." - Delores Churchill (Haida) / Donald Gregory (Tlingit), 2005.