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N. West Indian MaskE18923-0

FROM CARD: "ON LOAN TO CITY OF BUENOS AIRES-MARCH 25, 1954-LOAN WAS RETURNED 1955.

Culture
Tlingit
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Inverted Double Reed, Whistle (Sk-Ana)E88873-0

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO REV. F.W. GALPIN, HADDON, ENGLAND. 1902.

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Wooden PipeE20844-0

FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE. FIG. 64 P. 61. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads figure caption identifies pipe as depicting a sea otter floating on its back.

Culture
Tlingit and Hutsnuwu
Made in
Admiralty Island, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Deer's [sic] Head MaskE56474-0

Mask has movable lower jaw.Note that catalog ledger book lists this as a "wolf's head" and the catalog card says this is a deer (source of this change/discrepancy is unknown - transcription error?). In 2019, Gwaai and Jaalen Edenshaw noted that the sharp teeth indicate that it is probably not a deer, and the long whiskers made from feather shafts make it look more like a mouse or shrew.

Culture
Haida
Made in
Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Slate Totem-Pole ModelE88987-0

From card: "Bear-killer whale, raven, beaver, and fishhawk motifs. Same artist as 274591 - CN Kaufmann 8/67" Illus. Pl. 306, p. 385 and described p. 398 and 410 in Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as the beaver with bone-of-whale teeth inlaid or glued on, and abalone shell inlays in his eyes and ears; the raven with abalone shell inlays; the killer-whale, also with whale bone teeth glued on, and inlaid abalone eyes. Attributed by Henry Young to Moses McKay.

Culture
Haida
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Stone Sinker For Halibut LineE72659-0
Iron AdzeE20642-0

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1Y, PG. 2." Handbook caption identifies as long-handled elbow hafted adze.Listed on page 50 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
Bella Bella (Heiltsuk)
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Bow & ArrowsE76296-0

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885. Ledger indicates 1 object with this number sent to T.F. Spangler 2-1886.According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.See Cat. 122 p. 195 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 one arrow, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.433, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76296.

Culture
Makah
Made in
Neah Bay, Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Halibut-Hook (Iron)E88778-0
Head Ornament, Of Wood, Duck On OrcaE89041-0