The totemic design is well done but rather recent. The paint is vermilion and ball bluing blue. Totemic designs occupy two sides and a design (see card) is on each of the other sides. The box is of red cedar, pegged side and bottom. New looking almost.

Bentwood Box

Tlingit people, Wrangell, Alaska, Native American

Late 19th-early 20th century

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String of angular blue glass beads
Crudely made, several strands of red-dyed bark produce colored bands. Hole in the bottom.
Bone fleshing tool made of a large bone, rounded for a hand hold for most of the length. The top shows the natural bone shape of the joint. The edge is cut slanting through the cylindrical bone and is serrate
Black and white photograph with four Navajo women wearing jingle dresses, with bandanas covering their faces, standing at the base of tall redwood trees.