FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 14; P. 394." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.---FRAME OF WOOD; ROUNDING TOE, STRONGLY CURVED UP; LONG POINTED HEEL. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE AND FINE, MADE OF LINES OF PREPARED DEER SKIN, OR BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSE, STRONG MAHOUT, ROVE THROUGH FRAME. PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS. LOOPS FOR FASTENING THE SHOE TO THE FOOT. THESE SHOES WERE NOT MADE TO BE WORN INTERCHANGEABLY ON RIGHT AND LEFT FOOT, THERE BEING A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN THE SHAPE OF THE TWO FRAMES. LENGTH, 49 INCHES; GREATEST WIDTH, 11 3/4 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA, 1882. 63,558. COLLECTED BY JOHN J. MCLEAN. WORN BY THE TINNE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK) AND BROUGHT TO SITKA IN TRADE. NEG. NO. 5521."

FROM CARD: "THE INDIAN, SITKA JACK, CHIEF SENT THESE AS HIS OWN GIFT TO THE MUSEUM. (NATIONAL)."In Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 617, these objects are described as "Bone armlets, Tinneh natives of Upper Chilkaht R. (Presented to the S.I. by Sitka Jack, Indian Chief + interpreter, Sitka.)" Note that there is also an entry recorded under accession number 5273 for the year 1876 that may refer to these objects? It records a donation of Chilcat bone armlets from Sitka Jack. Sitka Jack may be this man?: Khaltseixh (Sitka Jack) (1836-1916), Tlingit L'uknax.ádi clan house leader and Indian policeman.Illus. Fig. 256 p. 250 in Van Kampen, Ukjese. 2012. The History of Yukon First Nations Art, Phd dissertation, Leiden University. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/18984 . Van Kampen identifies as probably Southern Tutchone.

FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #583."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; PL. 129; P. 548. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #636."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS., IN USNM ANNUAL REPORT, 1888, P1. 27, FIG. 119, P. 286."

Originally catalogued as "Canadian Indians," From card: "Buckskin-fringed and quilled. Long looped suspension cord. Object is illus.: Fig. 26, p. 128 "Yukon River Athapaskan Costume in the 1860's" by Kate Duncan in Faces, Voices & Dreams; Division of Alaska State Museums; 1987. Object is identified there as Athabaskan knife case."

FROM CARD: "ESKIMO KNIFE. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 4, FIG. 5C, P. 401. IDENTIFIED THERE AS KNIFE OF ATHABASKAN TYPE MADE FROM FILE."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/37 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Knife made from a single piece of iron that serves as the blade, handle and pommel. Remnants of cross-hatched lines on the surface of the blade show that this knife was made from a file. The blade has been sharpened along one edge. It is narrower at the handle, which has been wrapped with light and dark pieces of hide thong. The pommel was made by splitting and bending the piece of iron below the handle. This style of knife, and in particular the shape of the pommel, is characteristic of iron knives made in Siberia and traded throughout the western Arctic and Subarctic, although it may have been made locally, copying that design.

FROM CARD: "ONCE IDENTIFIED AS ESKIMO. BROAD BLADED STEEL KNIFE BIFURCATING INTO A Y-SHAPED HANDLE WITH COILED TIPS. HANDLE LASHED WITH CANE. BLADE WITH CENTRAL RIDGE ON ONE SIDE ONLY. *DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #601. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 157. LOANED TO THE ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN 09/13/76. LOAN RETURNED 7/28/1977. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 304, P.229." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as probably Kutchin: "Long knives with flaring, voluted handles were used for both hunting and fighting. They were originally made from copper obtained through the native trade system; later examples like this one collected in the 1860s are made of trade steel. Lashed to wooden poles, they were used by especially daring hunters to kill bears."

List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabaskan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75455 as willow bow, with device for receiving the blow of the string. Tinne Indians, interior of Alaska.] #75455 - Bow illus. in Smithsonian Rept, 1893; Pl. 64, fig. 2; p. 679." Illustration caption identifies as "Bow, of willow; oval in section, tapering toward the ends slightly, double curve. Chief characteristic is a piece of wood on the inside of the grip, to catch the blow of the string in relaxing. The bowstring is a tough one of rawhide. Length, 4 feet 5 inches. Kutchin, Inland Alaska."