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FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XIX, FIGS. 43-4, P. 183." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---WOOD, HOLLOWED OUT UNDERNEATH TO FIT TOP OF HEAD, AND CARVED AND PAINTED ON TOP AND IN FRONT TO REPRESENT EYES, TEETH, AND MUZZLE OF SOME ANIMAL. ATTACHED TO AND PENDANT BEHIND ARE BODY, TAIL, AND GILLS CUT FROM THICK PAPER AND PAINTED TO REPRESENT A FISH. WORN IN DANCES BY HAIDAH INDIANS, S. W. PART OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. LENGTH OF WOOD, 9 1/2 INS WIDTH, 7 1/4 INS. TOTAL LENGTH, 18 INS. PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO, 1875. 20,890. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. POSSIBLY A REPRESENTATION OF THLAMA (A SKATE FISH), WHICH SOME OF THE HAIDAH INDIANS HOLD IN HIGH REGARD." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. See p. 206-207 in Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright identifies this object as having been collected by James G. Swan from Duncan ginaawaan at Klinkwan in 1875.