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Red Wooden FigureET9998-0
Wood Carving Dead Chief Carried On Back Of FishE43241-0
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Carved Stone ImageE325170-0
From card: "A very remarkable carving in gray sandstone representing a kneeling woman evidently in the act of giving birth to some animal. The carving no doubt represents an episode from some myth. One of the best examples of native American stone sculpture." Illus. Pl. 15b, after p. 24, in B.A.E. Bulletin 124, "Nootka and Quileute Music" by Frances Densmore. Densmore also describes it on pp. 31-32 of that publication. Densmore states that she showed a photo of this artifact to her Makah informants in 1926, and Young Doctor identified it as made by Santiano, a medicine man who died around 1909: "... one of Santiano's fancy sinkers that he used on his fishline. The old fellow was handy at carving and had several of them. Young Doctor remembered this one and said that Santiano had pounded a nail in the top of the head to fasten his fishline to it. ... He said further that the little animal clasped in the arms of the figure looked like a baby hair seal and that Santiano obtained the rocks for his carvings from a place at Warm House. Apparently the figure represents a creature to which the Makah attributed the characteristic of a mermaid."
- Culture
- Makah
- Made in
- Neah Bay, Washington, USA
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Carved Figure CarvingE274294-0
- Culture
- Indian
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Wood Carving BirdE274319-0
- Culture
- Indian
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Medicine-WomanE46498-0
From Swan original tag with artifact: [Represents] "Indian woman from Cooks Inlet a medicine or conjurer, [presumbably collected in] Sitka, Alaska, 1881, J.G. Swan." Brass? button on right wrist of figure is decorated with Heraldic eagle grasping a bundle of arrows and an olive branch; eagle has shield on breast with an I? in center of shield.
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Set Of Carved Heads Of WoodE75452-0
LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO SALEM, MA. 1886.List in accession file includes "1. complete set of carved heads of animals & human (Doctor's gear)", which may refer to these objects?
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Bear TotemE56466-0
FROM CARD: "25 CTS. ."
- Culture
- Haida
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Carving Carved Wooden Figure Of A Skaga Or DoctorE89147-0
Listed on page 51 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
- Haida
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
Carved Wooden Human Figure.E1783-0
FROM CARD: "STYLE OF FIGURE ALLUDES TO TSIMSHIAN INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. JUNE 21, 1967 - CAROLE KAUFMANN."
- Culture
- Northwest Coast
- Made in
- USA ? or Canada ?
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History