Notes

Ruth Demmert and Alan Zuboff, elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat, either Tlingit or Haida made, and the painted design suggests a wealthy woman owned this hat. This object would be personal property, not clan property. The design might be a raven crest, due to the tufts design older ravens have. Alan comments that, for Angoon, the presence of potlatch rings designate clan property, but he can't say for this hat not knowing where it came from.Hat was purchased by Victor Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6780, identified as Chilkat (Evans noted that hat was damaged in shipping - crown was broken). See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .