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Whalebone ClubE359617-0

From card: "Spatula-shape with handle carved to represent a human head."End of handle appears to be carved to represent a bird, rather than a human. Side of club includes carvings of a what appears to be a whale and a bird.

Culture
Salish
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Totemic StaffE361618-0
NecklaceE359254-0
FishhookE359486-0

From card: "Point missing. ... missing point [barb] is probably # 360401. GEP."

Culture
Tsimshian
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BowE361124-0

From card: "Simple bow; grip wrapped in bark; sinew strung."Catalogue card calls this Salish, but older Smithsonian tag with object has it as Clallam (mispelled as Clamlam). This bow bears a variety of original numbers. One number marked on the bow itself in old ink/handwriting (and subsequently struck through) is 1142; bow is also marked "Bow. Puget Sound" in old ink/handwriting. It may be speculated that this bow may be bow Catalogue No. E1142, exchanged out of the collections to Anton Heitmuller in 1915. Heitmuller and Evans were both Washington, D.C. collectors during the same time period, and other Smithsonian pieces that went to Heitmuller are documented in the Evans collection. If the bow is indeed the former E1142, that object was collected by James G. Swan from the Makah of Neah Bay, Washingon, and entered the Smithsonian collections in 1866. Note that early Swan accession records from this era, including the one E1142 is part of, reference Puget Sound, though that has been corrected to Neah Bay in the cataloguing.

Culture
Salish, Makah ? and Clallam ?
Made in
Neah Bay, Washington, USA ?
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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BasketE360829-0
Pipe BowlE359126-0
Wooden DishE360354-0
BasketE360652-0

From card: "Sides wrapped twined. Bottom checker board." From old tag on bottom of basket: "Old Quilliute. 5154. 5.00."The old tag/label attached to the basket, referenced on the card, may be from dealer Grace Nicholson. Compare to label with E360584.

Culture
Quileute
Made in
Washington, USA
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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LadleE360335-0

From card: "Old wood, handle and bowl continuous, carved on surface; conventional bird at end. Formerly part of the E. H. Harriman coll. [Accession # 54171 for year 1912], see [former] catalog number 274,223." Note: Harriman Accession was collected by John Green Brady, 1878 - 1909.

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