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BROKEN PLAITED BASKETRY HANDLE. Stored Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "THE SPECIMENS IN THE DRAWER ARE PROBABLY NOT FISH HOOKS. THEY LOOK LIKE PENDANTS FOR EARRINGS. INVENTORIED 1979."
Listed on page 50 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)".
SMALL WHITE AND BROWN TWINED BASKET MAKAH?
TWINED BASKETRY IN SPRUCE ROOT; CYLINDRICAL BAND OF TWINED SPRUCE ROOT WOVEN INSIDE TO FORM INNER CROWN. UN-DECORATED.Letter from donor dated May 3, 1978, filed in accession file, indicates that this object was acquired from the Eskridge family in Olympia, WA, who are descended from Governor [Isaac] Stevens. This object was said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan and at one time to have had a label with it in Swan's hand.
From card: "NW Coast, Br. Columbia? Wood, with metal barb and root cordage lanyard. See Cat. # 20652."