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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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Blanket With Totemic DesignsE380920-0

FROM CARD: "BLANKET WOVEN IN TRADITIONAL STYLE FROM HAIR OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT, WITH TOTEMIC DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN COLOR EFFECTED BY USE OF NATIVE VEGETABLE AND MINERAL DYES, FROM THE CHILKAT INDIANS OF S.E. ALASKA. PURCHASED [in 1940 for the Smithsonian U.S. National Museum] BY MRS. WALCOTT FOR $225 FROM MRS. BELLE G. SIMPSON, NUGGET SHOP, JUNEAU, ALASKA. LOANED TO RENWICK 4/29/1982, RETURNED 6/1983. MATERIALS: MOUNTAIN-GOAT WOOL; CEDAR-BARK FIBER; BLACK, YELLOW AND BLUE-GREEN DYE." SEE CATALOGUE CARD FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

Culture
Tlingit and Chilkat
Made in
Juneau, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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