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FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE, PAINTED RED AND BLACK. DESIGN: A HUMAN HEAD WITH A PROTRUDING TONGUE "USED IN THE SECRET SOCIETIES." (DR. BOAS). ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 209; P. 656 (HAIDA) ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 264. LEDGER LISTS PEOPLE AS "KOUTZNOW INDIANS," KOUTZNOW IS PROBABLY A VARIATION OF HUTSNUWU, A TLINGIT GROUP, SEE BAE BULLETIN 30.. 20,875 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 12B, PG. 250."Accession file identifies original #90, Catalogue Nos. E20874 - 75, as 2 war rattles. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies them as from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people, which was transcribed on the catalogue card as Kountznow's], Chatham Strait, Alaska. Prince of Wales Island has been written on the artifacts themselves by the museum cataloguer and added to the catalogue cards. For E20875, Prince of Wales Island has been crossed off the catalogue card and Kootznahoo Inlet has been written over the culture name. The catalogue entry on this object in "The Far North" exhibit catalogue, assumed the object was Tlingit, probably from Admiralty Island from the vicinity of Angoon, and identifies motif as bear.