FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PlL VI, FIG. 11, P. 260. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENT CATALOGUE; FIG. 62, P.60. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as an iron ornament formed into bifurcated scrolls, and notes that his motif was popular on Athabaskan knife handles. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABLE WITH CARD: "HAIR ORNAMENT.--MADE OF STEEL, HIGHLY POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. THIS FORM IS VERY ANCIENT AND VALUED AT ONE OR TWO SLAVES. WORN BY YOUNG GIRLS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), NASS R., B. C. 10,313. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. F. W. RING, U. S. A. [sic, this should be Lt. F. M. Ring]. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."

From card: "Body, including arms and legs, is of brown printed calico in grape design, loosely stuffed with grass. To this is attached a face carved of cedar wood with mouth and part of nose painted red. Eyes and other features accentuated in black paint. Flat carved wooden hands painted red on the palms. Feet are simple black forms with the ankle, and toes indicated by a series of deep excisions. Neck, wrists and ankle have short sashes of red cotton cloth. Illus.: p. 92, Pl. 98, Celebrations catalogue, Smithsonian Press, 1982. [caption from this catalogue is attached to card:] Puppet, ca. 1890-1930. Northwest Coast Indians; British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska. cedar, red cloth, calico cotton, red paint, grass stuffing. 30 1/2 x 13 x 44 (77.5 x 33 x 10.2). Kwakiutl and Tsimshian secret societies used puppets to suggest to a believing audience that spirits were actually present. As part of an elaborate ritual stagecraft, puppets often appeared in acts of illusion. A box might be thrown over a fire to dim its light, whereupon a puppet would miraculously materialize from the gloom, or, at a sound from the roof, puppets might sweep down from a smokehole. In their cures, Tlingit shamans frequently used puppets to represent either a healing spirit or the illness itself."

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED, 1 ARROW TO TROCADERO 1885. 8/17/66. *ONLY 3 OF THE 4 ARROWS ARE DEFINITELY NW COAST."

From card: "Cedar bark."Original label attached to artifact says "Jessie Matthews [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.Listed on page 41 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".

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