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Hair Ornament48.3.748

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Culture
American
Material
horn and abalone shell inlay
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
Portland Art Museum
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ClubE378198-0

FROM CARD: "ON UPPER PART ARE CARVED A HUMAN FACE, PUFFIN AND PORPOISE; HANDLE PAINTED GREEN; UPPER PART PAINTED BLACK, GREEN, RED, ETC. PROBABLY MADE FOR TOURIST TRADE. LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Stone Object - Sloping Grip MaulE378199-0
Stone ObjectE378200-0

From card: "Made of heavy micaceous schist; made in shape of ulu with hole for grip but too heavy and blunt; has the appearance of having been made quite recently. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 197. [Identified there as possibly a chopper.] The collector had thought this was from the Kolushan people."

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Stone MortarE378201-0
Carved Wooden BowlE369524-0

From card: "Used ceremonially at Potlatch Feast; made of red cedar to represent Tsonogoa (Tsonokwa), unpainted."

Culture
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Lip Ornament1954.9.159

Elongated oval labret, embellished with a flange and incised line. [CAK 26/05/2009]

Culture
Haida
Material
stone
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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