FROM CARD: "*CHILKAT. BONE. INVENTORIED 1980."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 #19 on the list.

Model of Catalogue No. E45968 made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes. Original is from Chilkat Tlingit, Alaska.No catalog card found in card fileAnthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this is a model of artifact E45968, 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 the model maker.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: "Wood, ancient eagle head. 11 1/2 in. long. 12/19/66: Accounted for. - GP."E104638 - E104641 appear to be the same objects catalogued previously as E73822, part of Accession No. 15196, and described on catalogue card for that number as "Ancient Bone and Wood Instrument, 4; Upper Yukon River, Alaska; Used for trapping mink & martin; Av. [length] 10 1/2 in." E73822 does not have a culture identified on card, ledger book, or in accession record.

Ruth Demmert and Alan Zuboff, elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat, either Tlingit or Haida made, and the painted design suggests a wealthy woman owned this hat. This object would be personal property, not clan property. The design might be a raven crest, due to the tufts design older ravens have. Alan comments that, for Angoon, the presence of potlatch rings designate clan property, but he can't say for this hat not knowing where it came from.Hat was purchased by Victor Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6780, identified as Chilkat (Evans noted that hat was damaged in shipping - crown was broken). See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .

FROM CARD: "SHAPE OF A FROG."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 2 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan.Listed on page 46 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: " 'WOMAN'S AWL'."List in accession file (this object is # 30 on list) identifies as "Woman's awl ... used in sewing skins, a sea lions penis bone. List in accession file does not attribute this object to the Chilkat, though the old tag with the artifact does.

From card: "Grooved; pecked into shape and edge ground. See Niblack, 1890, pl. XXIII. Collector says: "Presented at Cluhwon [spelled Kluhwon in accession file ledger sheet], Oct. 1915, by Chief Yilhawk of the Chilkat tribe."Cluhwon/Kluhwon may be Klukwan? "Chief Yilhawk of the Chilkat tribe" may be one of the men variously called Yel-hawk, Yeal-hawk, and, more correctly, Yeilxaak.

FROM CARD: "WOVEN BLANKET, FRINGED; WARP ELEMENTS OF COTTON AND A WOODY FIBER, PERHAPS CEDAR BARK; WOOLEN WEFT; DESIGN ELEMENTS IN YELLOW, WHITE, GREEN, AND BLACK. THERE IS A PECULIAR ARRANGEMENT OF CUT AND APPLIED PANELS NOT FOUND IN OLDER SPECIMENS." In a 1937 letter in the accession file, the donor notes that she purchased this "more than 30 years ago" and identifies it as from Sitka.EVELYN VANDERHOOP, HAIDA WEAVER, IDENTIFIES THIS CHILKAT BLANKET AS A MIX OF MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL AND COMMERCIAL YARNS

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. VII, FIG. 11, P. 306. ALSO USNM AR 1888; FIG. 189, P. 316; AND REPT, 1902; FIG. 137; P. 409. & PL. 71; P. 548."