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This skirt would be worn wrapped from back around the sides. The open front would then be covered by a fringed apron. This skirt shows signs of much wear. Most of the materials it is made from are from local sources with the exception of two copper discs, shaped and cut like the abalone. All the ornaments in addition to being aesthetically pleasing would make a sound as the woman moved in the dance. A small blue bead is fastened in the fringe.
HAS CATALOG CARD. Card indicates that there were originally 12 paint brushes with this T number, a number of which were illustrated in Plate XLV-B, after p. 320, of Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. As of 2010, there are now 2 brushes only with this T number, ET714-0 and ET714-1 (some may now be part of ET11908?) Card indicates these are probably Tlingit, may be from S. E. Alaska? Handle of this brush is carved bone and wood; red paint still on brush bristles. Illus. Plate XLV-B, Fig. 254, after p. 320 in Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. Niblack identified carved handle as representing "Oolalla, the mountain demon."
HAS CATALOG CARD. Card indicates that there were originally 12 paint brushes with this T number, a number of which were illustrated in Plate XLV-B, after p. 320, of Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. As of 2010, there are now 2 brushes only with this T number, ET714-0 and ET714-1 ( (some may now be part of ET11908?) Card indicates these are probably Tlingit, may be from S. E. Alaska? Handle of this brush is carved wood; black paint still on brush bristles. Illus. Plate XLV-B, Fig. 255, after p. 320 in Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. Niblack identified carved handle as representing an eagle.
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)".
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)".
OLD NO. S: 24 AND 25; POSSIBLY 8011 OR 1108; NORTHWEST COAST - 12 WOODEN PAINT BRUSHES. Stored Tlingit.