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From card: "Flexible vertical cylinder, sloping slightly toward the flat base, plain twined weaving, decorated in vertical rows of concentric rectangles, and animal figure around top edge; braided rim with shallow loops is partly broken. Obtained about 1900. Reference: Mason, p. 234, fig. 15, pl. 164." Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007, the concentric rectangles in the design represent puppy pens and the animal figures with upcurved tails near the pens depict dogs.
FROM CARD: A HAIDA DUGOUT CANOE WITH THIS NUMBER WAS "CONDEMNED OCT. 1933. THIS (CANOE) WAS LATER GIVEN NO. 160335 TO WHICH REFER."
FROM CARD: "WOODEN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HARPOONS, LINES, AND FLOATS (3 MODELS).-HARPOON-HEADS HAVE COPPER BLADES, WITH IVORY WINGS OR BARBS; LINES, MADE OF TWISTED FIBER, SERVED WITH TWINE; FLOATS, WOOD CARVED IN IMITATION OF SEALSKIN BUOYS. MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS. NEAH BAY, WASHINGTON TER. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Anthropology catalogue ledger book notes that part of this object was exchanged with Trocadero Museum, July 1885.See Cat. 94 p. 188 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 on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.224, one wooden float model with harpoon line, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E4131.
FROM CARD: "REPRESENTS BIRD, PROBABLY RAVEN. LONG BILL. PAINTED GREEN, RED, WHITE AND BLACK. 9/1962--BILL HOLM CONSIDERED THIS TO BE NOT CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SOUTHERN GROUPS AND IF GOTTEN IN THE PLACE MENTIONED IT MUST HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FROM THE NORTHERN GROUP (RAE)."Notes from Glen Wood, Tsimshian artist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 8/14/1983: "Agrees with Holm that this is Tlingit. However, it represents a mosquito, not a raven."
From card: "Rushes."