PAINTBRUSH, NW COAST, FORMERLY ON EXHIBIT IN HALL 9, 'NORTHWEST COAST ART' EXHIBIT CASE; NO NUMBER ON OBJECT.

From card: "Wood handle carved into form of raven, wood split and bristles caught between. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 8 third and fourth from left, pg. 246. Ill. USNM AR 1888, pl. 45, fig. 251, p. 318. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64, loan returned Feb. 15, 1966. Loan: NHB Lobby Exhibit Oct. 24, 1991."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies as Sitka, it is unclear when or by whom the attribution on catalogue card to "Skittagetan stock", British Columbia was made.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)".