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From card: "Mask of wood - from Blunden Harbor, on the mainland coast of British Columbia, S. W. of Segmom Inlet, the Kwakiutl people. It represents a wolf's head, and was worn upon festival occasions." Mask has movable eyes and lower jaw.
FROM CARD: "COVERED. NOS. 168,267-8: ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 65; P. 548. NO. 168,267, 8 1/2" HIGH. 168,268, 6 3/4" HIGH. 168,269,7" HIGH. EXCHANGE FOR ACCESSION NO. 45,092. JAN. 12, 1906. 168268: NEG. #86-6985 & 86-6986."
Though catalogued as #1 in the collection, this object is actually #5 on the detailed list filed in the accession record.
FROM CARD: "FUR."
FROM CARD: "WOOD."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 25 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Stencil of wood for stamping face for festival or ceremonial occasions for either men or women ... carved to represent a birds wing and eye."Listed on page 47 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)".
FROM CARD: "BASKET. 1 GIFT TO ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INSTITUTE, FEB. 14, 1903. ONE-EXCHANGE-MR. G. D. E. SCHMELTZ LEIDEN MUSEUM, LEIDEN HOLLAND. MAY 1899."
From card: "Checkerboard weave. Formerly part of the George Emmons collection, cat. no. 168287 [which was part of Accession No. 28072, accessioned in 1894]."