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From card: "Bone carved. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 46, fig. 257; p. 320." Plate caption in USNM AR for 1888 identifies this as a "Slave-killer" "Made of bone. Carved to represent the beak of a raven. Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by E. B. Webster, U.S. Navy."
FROM CARD: "43234-6. # 43236-WITH HANDLE."
FROM CARD: "BASKET. CEDAR BARK. CHECQUER WEAVING."
FROM CARD: "FOR BASKET MAKING. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 12, NO. 10; P. 48."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 15 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hutsnuwu Tlingit of Angoon. List identifies this object as a "Woman's knife of blue mussel shell used by women for basket making."Listed on page 114 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Jackknife".
FROM CARD: "TRUNCATED CONE OF ORNAMENTAL TWINE BASKETRY, FITTING INTO A SIMILAR ONE OF THE SAME IN PLAIN AND PURPLE BANDS."
Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 3 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Horn of the mountain goat in preparation of manufacture for spoon handle. It has been partially shaped and roughly cut, and is now ready to be worked down and ornamentally carved."