FROM CARD: "IN TWINED WEAVING AFTER THE STYLE OF CHILKAT-BLANKET IS FACE EMBROIDERED. LOAN: THE TEXTILE MUSEUM 4/30/65. ILLUS. FIG. 93, P.59 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989."

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 31 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit. List identifies object as "Hollow bone, the leg bone of a [birg?, bird?] ... used to inflate bladders to be used as halibut floats."

From card: "Carved from single cedar log by Chilkat Indians at the Seattle, Washington Fair in 1970. Includes three figures; top - raven or eagle, center - wolf, and bottom - the bear. Carving goes around three fourths of circumference and is painted in red, black and light blue. Partially hollowed out in back. Carved under the direction of Carl Heinmiller [founder of Alaska Indian Arts, Inc.]." According to the accession history: the totem pole "was commissioned by Western Airlines for the Alaska Exhibit at Seattle, Washington, 1969-1970. Carved by Chilkat Indians at Fort Chilkoot [a.k.a. Port Chilkoot, or Fort William H. Seward], Haines, Alaska, under the direction of Carl Heinmiller, owner of the Fort."Florence Sheakley, Linda Wynne, Alan Zuboff, and Shirley Kendall made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Edwin Caskill, Leo Jacobs, Tommy Jimmy, and Charlie Jimmy carved this totem pole. Leigh Heinmiller in Haines may have photos of the totem pole at the Seattle Exposition. This totem pole features an Eagle at the top, Wolf in the middle, and a Bear at the bottom with a tana (copper shield), all from Kaagwantaan clan. Florence commented that it would take a year to carve this object and that totem poles are read from bottom to top. Alan commented that based on the adze marks three people worked on this object, instead of one or two, potentially as a teaching tool for the whole community. The totem pole is not hollowed out, suggesting it was made in a hurry.

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

FROM CARD: "45989 LOANED TO RENWICK GALLERY 2/11/82. RETURNED 6/1983. LOANED TO SITES-TREASURES 5-10-84. RETURNED 11-19-84. HORN LADLE, CA. 1850-80. TLINGIT INDIANS; ALASKA. MOUNTAIN-SHEEP HORN 24 X 13 X 6 7/8 (61 X 33 X 17.5). LADLES MADE OF MOUNTAIN-SHEEP HORN WERE FABRICATED BY FIRST STEAMING AND BENDING THE HORN ON A MOLD AND THEN CARVING THE DESIRED DESIGN. RAVENS AND BIRDS OF PREY---SYMBOLS OF DEATH AND REINCARNATION ---ARE FREQUENTLY DEPICTED. THE FIGURE WITH THE RECURVED BEAK REPRESENTS THE SHARED SOUL OF MAN AND SPIRIT, INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN BIRD AND HUMAN."

FROM CARD: "WOVEN FROM GOAT FLEECE WITH PAINTED (DYED) DESIGNS IN BLACK, YELLOW AND GREEN. TWO ROWS OF PUFFIN BEAK BEADS AT ENDS OF BUCKSKIN FRINGE BORDER. RARE AND VALUABLE SPECIMEN. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967 RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 290, P. 219." FROM CROSSROADS CATALOGUE: "A WRAPAROUND APRON AND DECORATED LEGGINGS WERE OFTEN WORN BY THE NOBILITY ALONG WITH A CHILKAT BLANKET ON CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS. THE WOVEN PIECES OF THIS SET (OF DANCE APRON AND LEGGINGS) WERE ORIGINALLY PART OF A SINGLE BLANKET DEPICTING A DIVING KILLER WHALE, WHICH WAS PROBABLY CUT UP AND DISTRIBUTED TO GUESTS DURING A GREAT MEMORIAL POTLATCH. THE WOVEN PIECES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED WITH TRADE BLANKET MATERIAL AND BORDERED WITH SKIN FRINGES. PUFFIN BEAKS ATTACHED TO THE FRINGES RATTLED TOGETHER WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF THE DANCER."" Leggings illus. Fig. G, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=694 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Apron This dance apron was cut from a full-sized robe that was woven out of dyed mountain goat wool and cedar bark. Puffin beaks and leather fringes were added for sound and motion during dance performances. The Chilkat-style design represents a diving Killer Whale, according to Tlingit advisers. The head, including eyes, nostrils, and mouth, forms the two lowest tiers of the design. The central spirit face is the whale's body, and its flukes and dorsal fin are represented by the double eyes and other elements at the top of the weaving.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E341202-0 Apron and E341202-1 Leggings are both on loan.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM CEDAR WOOD, BIRD AT END OF HANDLE, HEAD MISSING."

FROM CARD: "MEDICINE MAN'S. BONE BRACELET."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 39 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List describes object as "Doctors bone bracelet ... worn by the doctor in practising about the sick[?] is supposed to give power."Listed on page 48 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: "PEOPLE: **CHILKAT-SITKA? REMARKS: *COMPARE TO 'SLAVE KILLER' #67826 AS A CLUB HEAD FRAGMENT. **9/30/66: THIS SPECIMEN DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL MCLEAN INVENTORY (NOV. 9, 1881) THAT PROVIDES SPECIFIC PROVENIENCE FOR EACH ITEM. GEP."