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LEDGER SAYS SENT TO DR. S.C. WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 1933.From card: "Shank of halibut hook carved to represent a duck."
FROM CARD: "CRUDELY CARVED OF CEDAR WOOD, ONE FIGURE ON TOP OF OTHER. LOWER ONE A SEATED HUMAN FIGURE WITH A FACE CARVED ON THE BACK OF ITS HEAD, UPPER ONE STANDING ON TOP OF THE LOWER HOLDING A LIZARD-LIKE ANIMAL IN FRONT OF ITS TORSO, HAS A CROWN WITH UPSTANDING ELEMENTS."
From card: "Overlaid designs in color forming banded figures consisting of triangles and [right-facing] swastika."Note: The swastika is usually considered a non-traditional Tlingit basket design symbol. It was popular in the early 20th century in Europe and North America as a good luck symbol but disappeared from use after it became negatively viewed because of its association with the Nazi party.
Provenience uncertain. Catalogue lists locality as Unalaska/Ounalaska, i.e. Aleutian Islands, but object is stored with Northwest Coast/Tlingit.
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK."
FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS. FIG.61, P.59. CATALOGUE."