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Gift of Fadhilla Nancy Bradley.
Gift of Barbara Christy Wagner.
Gift of Barbara Christy Wagner.
Gift of Barbara Christy Wagner.
Gift of Barbara Christy Wagner.
Gift of Jack and Barbara McLarty.
Gift of Terry Melton.
FROM CARD: "WOOD."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 25 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Stencil of wood for stamping face for festival or ceremonial occasions for either men or women ... carved to represent a birds wing and eye."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)".
Stencil used for decorating tapa cloth. Designs of a large palm leaf and a row of squares have been cut into an X-ray film negative. Stencil has been used and is coated with multiple layers of black and brown paint.