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FROM CARD: "30 CTS. ." Orca ater or Scana = Killer Whale
FROM CARD: "TOTEMS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL: "STONE CARVING. HAIDAH INDIANS, 1876. 23,340. QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN, PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. TER. MODEL OF POST SET UP IN FRONT OF HOUSES OF CHIEFS AND PRINCIPAL MEN TO INDICATE TOTEMS OR FAMILY NAMES OF OCCUPANTS." CATALOG CARD AND ACCESSION LEDGER SAY HAIDA, ALASKA.
Old tag with artifact, in Swan's hand: "2 childs grease boxes, Stikine Indians, Fort Wrangel, Alaska."
List in accession file identifies this object as # 8, "Warrior. Chilcat. Interior. Alaska."
TWINED BASKETRY IN SPRUCE ROOT; CYLINDRICAL BAND OF TWINED SPRUCE ROOT WOVEN INSIDE TO FORM INNER CROWN. UN-DECORATED.Letter from donor dated May 3, 1978, filed in accession file, indicates that this object was acquired from the Eskridge family in Olympia, WA, who are descended from Governor [Isaac] Stevens. This object was said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan and at one time to have had a label with it in Swan's hand.
FROM CARD: "THIS FORT WAS ERECTED 1792 BY LTS. QUIMP AND FIDALGO."
The emblem descrption on the cat card is actually describing E89098 and copied over from that card.