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FROM CARD: "PLAIN BRACELET. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF SILVER COIN, HAMMERED INTO THE REQUIRED SHAPE. NO ORNAMENTATION AND NO CLASP. WIDTH, 2/3 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,543. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." FROM CARD: "BRACELETS (4).---SILVER BANDS, FROM 5/16 TO 11/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; WITH OPEN-SPRING CLASPS, PLAIN AND BURNISHED EXTERIORS. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 3/8 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,546, 19,545, 19,544, 19,543. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."
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)".
From Swan original tag with artifact: [Represents] "Indian woman from Cooks Inlet a medicine or conjurer, [presumbably collected in] Sitka, Alaska, 1881, J.G. Swan." Brass? button on right wrist of figure is decorated with Heraldic eagle grasping a bundle of arrows and an olive branch; eagle has shield on breast with an I? in center of shield.
FROM CARD: "50CTS. ."
From card: "Label reads: "Haida Indians", "with one figure of a man seated on the stem.""Clay-type portrait pipe; two figures with bone or ivory heads sitting, back to back, on stem behind bowl.
Goes with model boat, catalog number E72936.