E229550 is a wooden copy of this artifact made for exhibit purposes. E229550 was illus. Fig. 72 p. 71 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as killer whale amulet.

FROM CARD: "DESIGN IN NATIVE DYES."

Original tag attached to artifact labels it in ink as "Eiderdown Cap, Artic [sic]." A different hand has written on the tag in pencil what appears to be "Yakutat".

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 57, fig. 302, p. 330 (Medicine and dance drum, Tlingit of Sitka). Also in Rept., 1896, pl. 70; p. 564." Identified in plate captions as "Medicine and Dance Drum. Tanned sheepskin stretched over a wooden frame. Totemic figure, the bear. It is beaten with an ordinary stick padded with cloth. Tlingit, Sitka, Alaska. Collected by Paymaster E.B. Webster, U. S. Navy." From late 19th or early 20th century exhibit label filed with card: "Hand drum of the Chilkats, Koluschan family. Shell, a hoop of bent wood; head, soaked, stretched across the hoop and nailed. Thongs are stretched across the back for a handle. Inside the head is painted with totemic emblems in red and black. Diameter 30 3/4 inches. Alaska. Collected, 1883, by E. B. Webster."Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This drum features a raven crest design, which may be traced back to the Raven Bone House because of the backbone and ribs on the design. This object is made of cedar wood, and was used for dancing. It is unclear if this drum was bought in Sitka from Chilkat people, or if it's a design/object of the Chilkat themselves.

FROM CARD: "4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 12/13/67: LOAN RETURNED." Red pigment in the formlines. Killer whale motif, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

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.