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FROM CARD: "FOR THE FACE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 26 on list) appears to attribute this to the HoonahTlingit of "Khart-heene"? [speculatively, possibly a version of one of the place names Karheen???] List also identifies object as "Pattern sticks or stencils for marking face for festival or ceremonial occasions ... the stick is laid on the face and the color is applied around it."Listed on page 47 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)".