FROM CARD: "FOR CONTENTS OF THIS BOX SEE #45976-9."

OVAL STONE PAINT MORTAR; ANIMAL FORM. REMNANTS OF BLUE GREEN PAINT IN MORTAR. Loan Museo Nacional de Antroplogia 5/18/64. Loan returned 2012.

No catalog card found in card fileModel of E46343 made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes (# is written on the artifact). Original is from Sitka, Alaska with no culture identified, though it has been attributed as Tlingit.Anthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this is a model of artifact E46343, modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is presumably the model maker.

FROM CARD: "20804-6. WOVEN OF WOOL OF THE MOUNTAIN GOAT AND DOG HAIR [?]. LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MEXICO 6/18/1964." Loan returned 2012. Illus. Fig. 570a, p. 380, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907.Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket is smaller than other similar ones, but is not considered a child's robe. There are two kinds of black dye that were used on the object, and one is disintegrating faster than the other. The design is a diving whale, but the line dividing the panels crosses over one another, which is unusual. This design is always called diving whale unless it has fins or claws.

From card: "5 samples of yarns used in weaving [Chilkat] blankets. White, yellow, black, blue and twisted with cedar bark."

Card for E45963, catalogued as "Box With Medicine Man's Masks, Robe etc." indicates that "FOR CONTENTS OF THIS BOX SEE #45976-9."

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: "Very poor condition."Ruth Demmert, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat and could be either Tlingit or Haida.Basket fragment # E360696 might possibly be the top for this hat?

FROM CARD: "BONE, SKIN DRESSER."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 # 20 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)".