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Spoon Handle Carved In Black HornE7898-0

Provenience uncertain. Catalogue lists locality as Unalaska/Ounalaska, i.e. Aleutian Islands, but object is stored with Northwest Coast/Tlingit.

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Dance Head OrnamentE7940-0
Stone Carved OrnamentE7943-0
CordE6558-0

From card: "Cord made by Coquettle Indians." From old museum tag with artifact: Kawquettle Indians, Vancouver Island; Cord made of inner bark of Thuja gigantea [a.k.a. Thuja plicata, or the western or Pacific red cedar]; Dr. T. T. Minor US. Rev Str Wyanda [sic, should be Wayanda]."

Culture
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Straw Woven Pouch And Cover (2)E6557-0
Wood Carved BootE7967-0

LEDGER BOOK CALLS THIS A WOOD CARVED BOOT, AND INDEED IT IS A BOOT-SHAPED BOX? WITH LID. HOWEVER, BOOT WAS MISTRANSCRIBED AS BOAT ON CATALOGUE CARD. - F. PICKERING 8-4-1999

Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Boots Of Reindeer Skin 2E7955-0

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."Provenience uncertain. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies source of these boots as "Chilcot Indians." On the basis of that, it seems, culture in catalogue database has been listed as Tlingit, Chilkat? Note that an unknown person at an unknown time listed culture as Eskimo? on catalogue card.

Culture
Tlingit and Chilkat ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Dance Head OrnamentE7938-0
Model Of Child's PaddleE7901-0

Provenience uncertain. Catalogue lists locality as Aleutian Islands, but object was later reidentified as Northwest Coast/Tlingit?.Listed on page 46 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)".

Culture
Tlingit ?
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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