[E2123-0 and E2123-1] TWO NARROW WOVEN BELTS WHICH ARE SEWN AT EITHER END. BOTH WOVEN IN A ZIGZAG PATTERN OF BLUE, RED, YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE-GREEN AND NATURAL COLORS. PUBLICATION: S.I. ANNUAL REPORT, 1928, PL. 13, P. 641. ONE BELT [E2123-1] WAS FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE NORTH AMERICAN HALL (Hall 9), NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "SMALL & NARROW. WOVEN OF VARIOUS COLORED WOOLS IN ZIGZAG PATTERN."

From card: "Made by a woman who had been blind for 20 years. Cylindrical basket sloping slightly in at rim for 1" deep cover. Wrapped coiled weaving decorated with a band of standing human figures in brown against yellow ground."

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.