FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *TLINGIT. REMARKS: *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."

FROM CARD: "DANCING ORNAMENT DYED RED. #20849 HEAD DRESS - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 18, FIG. 67, P. 270." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESSES.---MADE OF CEDAR BARK ROPE, STAINED RED WITH THE JUICE OF THE ALDER. WORN IN THE WINTER CEREMONIAL DANCES OF THE KWAKIUTL AND OTHER SOUTHERN COAST INDIANS. HOODSINOO INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN FAMILY), ADMIRALTY ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,849, 20,910. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THIS STYLE IS BORROWED BY THE NORTHERN INDIANS AND WORN BY THEM IN THEIR CEREMONIALS, BUT NOT WITH THE SAME SIGNIFICANCE AS IN THE SOUTH."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20849, 20850 and 20910 as original number 70, and lists as Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Admiralty Island, Alaska. List in accession file identifies no people or locality for original # 70. The old exhibit labels for E20910 have conflicting locality information, with one saying Admiralty Island, and the other Fort Wrangell.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 39, FIG. 198; P. 316. LOAN: R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM, 12/31/64. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966."

Listed on page 43 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". Listed under incorrect number, 61069.

From card: "Carved wood. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. 17, fig. 63, p. 272. See Andrews, 'Indian Primitive', p. 66." Plate caption in USNM AR for 1888 identifies object as "Dance Wand. Carried in the hand. Ornamented with human hair. Hoodsinoo Indians (Koluschan stock) [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Alaska. Collected by Paymaster E. B. Webster, U.S. Navy." On p. 272 of the same report Niblack writes that this object is "... a Tlingit ceremonial dance wand in the shape of a dagger ..."

From card: [Original] "Of marble, held a long time in the Tagwayta family of the Hootz-ah-tai-gwan, through many generations of chiefs. Original purchased from G. T. Emmons (Cat. No. 221181, Acc. No. 41512)." Original is Tlingit from Killisnoo, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "STONE DUCK USED IN SMOOTHING SKINS. "60115. ALASKA. J.J. MCCLEAN." WRITTEN ON BACK OF SPECIMEN WITH WHITE ENAMEL. REMOVED BY CONSERVATION LAB 4/30/1974."Provenience note: "Kootznahoo" was typed on catalogue card as though it were the Tlingit name for the artifact, but Kootznahoo is a place name, and the Anthropology catalogue ledger book entry for this artifact indicates that is what it should be as well.