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FROM CARD: "FISH SPEAR OR GIG. ROUGH TIP, MADE OF TWO PIECES OF BONE, FASTENED TOGETHER BY SINEW AND PITCH, FITTED OVER THE ENDS OF ROUGH WOODEN SHANKS OF UN-EQUAL LENGTH, WHICH ARE SECURED TO A STOUT STAFF BY A SERVING MADE OF CEDAR ROOTS. THE LINE, FASTENED TO THE TIPS, IS OF TWISTED RAWHIDE OR SINEW. MADE BY CLALLAM INDIANS. LENGTH, 53 INCHES. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, 1876. 23,522. JAMES G. SWAN."
From card: "Clam shell covered with basket work and having a handle."
From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Soft weave of rush; design birds on sides.
Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".
FROM CARD: "FOUND IN AN INDIAN GRAVE. 'THE HEAD OF THE MAN WAS IN AN OLD HUDSON BAY BRASS KETTLE.'"