FROM CARD: "18944-5. THESE ARE PART OF A CHILCAT SHAMAN'S SET. ALAN R. SAWYER 2/1982."

List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.

Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies baskets E222033-0 and E222034-0 as berry baskets collected (probably purchased?) in Victoria, B.C.. Catalogue card for E222033-0 attributes to Southeast Alaska. In a letter of July 16, 1903 from Sitka, Alaska filed in accession file 41512, Emmons mentions two baskets that may be E222033-0 and E222034-0. He mentions that he is sending two very old Chilkat berry baskets to the Smithsonian.

List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.

FROM CARD: "FACE WITH UPRIGHT EARS: PAINTED BLUE; FOREHEAD, OUTLINE OF EARS, EYES NOSE TIP, LIPS, TOTEMIC DESIGN ON CHIN, PAINTED BLACK; INNER-MOUTH RED. STRING AND LEATHER TIES IN BACK."

From card: "Womans face with labret. Painted blue; eyebrows and pupils black; nostrils, ears, and lips red; designs painted over right eyebrow, on left cheek, and right chin. One leather thong, for slipping over wearers ear, remains."

Echini are presumably sea urchins. E88759 - 61 are on the list of objects purchased by Swan in Masset, a Haida town, in July 1883. The catalogue card lists them as Haida. However, the catalogue card also lists them as "Chilcat Inds." The source of this Chilkat attribution is unknown, though it may perhaps be a misreading of the original Anthropology catalogue ledger book, which identifies E88752, whose entry is on the same page and above the entries for these nets, as of Chilkat origin.

CHILKAT, TLINGIT?, NW COAST- BLANKET OR MAN'S TUNIC; TIED FRINGE AT BOTTOM. MISNUMBERED 229789. This object was incorrectly listed as 89193 in Hall 9 exhibit book, and also listed incorrectly as 229789 on the back of old photo prints neg. #s 14081 and 14083. However, object itself has no visible numbers written on it and there already are different objects numbered 89193 and 229789 in the collections which seem to be correct. Back of this artifact is illus. Fig. 428, p. 195 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket by Cheryl Samuel, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Samuel identifies it as a potlatch tunic. This piece appears to be made from a Chilkat dancing blanket?: the central panel of the blanket may be the front of the tunic?, and Samuel notes that the two side panels of a dancing blanket are seamed together to form decorative panel on the back of this tunic. This piece may be the one referred to in the accession papers for a different tunic, Cat. #229789. In a report on 229789, O.T. Mason writes, as partial justification for acquiring the new piece: "We have a beauty, but the Emmons specimen is made up differently." It is possible that the "beauty" they had already might refer to ET16569, which would imply it was in the collections prior to 1904, when 229789 was accessioned. - F. Pickering 2-24-2005Tunic made from two different Chilkat blankets. The back of the tunic is two sections of the same(?) blanket hand sewn together in the horizontal middle. The shoulders are made of black felt wool with appliqued red wool. They are lined with a thinner woven wool cloth. The front tunic is edged with dark green cotton cloth. The back is edged with a polychrome (red, yellow, blue, black) cloth. Side panels between the front and back are red checked cotton gingham. Tassels on the front tunic are 4 cm long and wrapped with green and orange or green and yellow wool thread around round lengths of wood. The front tunic panel is woven in black, yellow, white, and green. The back is in yellow, black, white and brown. All of the tunic is hand sewn together with cotton thread. No Catalog number was found on the piece.