FROM CARD: "60104-6. 3 1/2" SPECIMEN [presumed to be # 60106?] RECOVERED FROM AN 8' DEPTH NEAR THE NW TRADING CO'S POST AT CHILCOOT, PORTAGE BAY, S.E. ALASKA. 60106 R.B.I., P.72." List in accession file dated December 1881 indicates the 3 1/2" adze had been found by G[eorge] Dickinson, the Northwest Trading Company's agent, while digging a well.

FROM CARD: "20804-6. WOVEN OF WOOL OF THE MOUNTAIN GOAT AND DOG HAIR [sic]." THIS ARTIFACT WAS LENT (UNDER INCORRECT CATALOGUE NUMBER OF 219504) TO CROSSROADS SEP 22, 1988. LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE, FIG. 281, P. 216." FROM CROSSROADS CATALOGUE: "THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ROBE OF NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN NOBILITY IN THE 19TH CENTURY WAS THE CHILKAT BLANKET. HIGHLY STYLIZED DESIGNS IN DYED MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL WERE WOVEN INTO THE TEXTILE, THE WARP OF WHICH WAS WOOL WITH A CEDAR BARK CORE. HERE THE CENTRAL PANEL REPRESENTS THE KILLER WHALE. THE CREATURE'S HEAD IS AT THE BOTTOM, THE TAIL AT THE TOP, AND THE TWO SIDES OF THE DORSAL FIN EXTEND OUTWARD FROM THE CENTRAL FACE, WHICH REPRESENTS THE BLOWHOLE. THE BOTTOM FRINGES OF THE BLANKET ARE NEARLY AS LONG AS THE HEIGHT OF THE WOVEN PANEL." Illus. Fig. 437, p. 198, and Fig. 438, p. 199, in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Blanket 20805 is similar (same?) design to the one Illus. Fig. 572a, p. 382, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907. There is a photo of this object on display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Negative No. 16465. See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_010 .Per Repatriation Office research, as reported in the Tlingit case report (Hollinger et al. 2005), in 1875 James Swan purchased this dancing blanket of the type commonly known as a Chilkat blanket from an unknown person probably in Wrangell, Alaska.Florence Sheakley, elder, and Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket still has it's ties so it could be worn. This object is not made with woolly dog hair, but rather mountain goat guard hairs. The hairs are stiff and thick, which makes them hair and not wool.

FROM CARD: "BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely # 22 on the list.Listed on page 47 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "LOAN LOWIE MUSEUM 12/31/1964, LOAN RETURNED FEB 15, 1966. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987, LOAN RETURNED NOV 25, 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N16, P. 136." Illus. Fig. 8, p. 28, and Fig. H, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. There is a photo of this object on display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Negative No. 16465. See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_010 .Emmons' handwritten list in accession file describes this object in this way: "No. 9. "Kate" - A Chilkat blanket waist robe which was found in the possession of an old shaman of the "Tahltan" people living at Tahltan 100 miles up the Stickheen [Stikine] River from its mouth. It was originally made at Chilkat (the village of Kluckwan) [a.k.a. Klukwan] and was carried in trade to Wrangel [Wrangell] + traded up the river. The design represents a beaver sitting up [,] it is both realistic and conventional, the leather fringe is hung with the upper + lower bills of the sea parrot or puffin. It was the only piece of clothing worn by the shaman in his practice."Fringe includes pendant puffin beaks and thimbles.The term 'Shaman' is a western term. The term ixt is preferred.

From card: "See: Proc. U.S.N.M., V. 15, (1892), Pl. 24, p. 221. The two eyes on this mask are Chinese coins (temple coins?); human hair fringe; opercula for teeth. Bears tag: 'Mask. Mythological being.' Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 6, pg. 123. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum 12/31/64, Retd.: Feb. 15, 1966. Loan: Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 10, 1971, Retd: 2-9-72. LoanL Crossroads Sep 22, 1988. Loan Returned: Jan. 21, 1993. Illus. Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 442, p. 307." Identified in Crossroads catalogue: "the staring eyes in this old shaman's mask are made of large bronze Chinese 'temple coins' embossed with dragon and foliate forms. ... (coins possibly acquired from shipwreck or trade). In any case, they do well as mystic eyes in the round hollow sockets of a beaked humanoid spirit face, grinning with power."Catalogue card identifies object as from Sitka, however, on p. 221 of "Chinese Relics in Alaska" by T. Dix Bolles, in Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, Vol. 15, No. 899, 1892, Bolles talks about the provenance of this mask: "The grave from which it was taken is located near the Chilkat Village at the mouth of the Chilkat River, Alaska, where stand a row of six gravehouses on a narrow strip of land close to the river, with a swamp back of them. ... The grave ... was pointed out to me as being old and that of a medicine man who had flourished more than two hundred years ago, six successors having filled this office; each one living to a good old age."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.