FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE, STAINED BROWN. DESIGN: A HUMAN HEAD. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 264. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."Accession file identifies original #90, Catalogue Nos. E20874 - 75, as 2 war rattles. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies them as from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people, which was transcribed on the catalogue card as Kountznow], Chatham Strait [listed as Chatham Sound on catalogue card], Alaska. Prince of Wales Island has been written on the artifacts themselves by the museum cataloguer and added to the catalogue cards. The catalogue entry on this object in "The Far North" exhibit catalogue, assumed the object was Tlingit, probably from Admiralty Island from the vicinity of Angoon, but noted that the reverse side of the rattle is inscribed Klemmakoon (which is a term Swan used for the Haida town of Klinkwan, which is on Prince of Wales Island.)This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.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=48 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Rattle, Tlingit This very large, round rattle may have been used during war to coordinate an attack or to strike fear and confusion into the enemy. George Ramos (Tlingit) said that rattles like this had been described to him as part of a war leader's outfit. Round stones were traditionally collected at low tide to put inside. The abstract designs may represent a whale or frog, but are difficult to interpret. During Elders discussions in 2005 (see web page cited above for transcription), Donald Gregory (Tlingit) and Delores Churchill (Haida) identified the wood as possibly alder.

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1890; Pl. 72, fig. 1; p. 416 Woman's knife, Kootznoo Indians (Kolushan stock)."From old label glued to artifact: "Ancient War Weapon, Koutznow Indians, Admiralty Island, Chatham Strait, Alaska Ter. June 24 1875 J.G. Swan"

FROM CARD: "60156A,B*. "*TWO SPECIMENS WERE FOUND WITH THIS NUMBER; HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED A & B."Listed on page 41 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".

FROM CARD: "IN SHAPE OF A RAVEN; FOR PREPARING NATIVE TOBACCO. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 63, FIG. 338, PG. 344. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1C, PG. 2. LOANED TO THE ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA DECEMBER 3, 1974. RETURNED: 3-25-76."

FROM CARD: "FOR SCRAPING THE INNER BARK OF THE HEMLOCK FOR FOOD." THIS KNIFE WAS ILLUSTRATED (UNDER INCORRECT #20840) IN USNM AR 1890; PL. 72, FIG. 1; P. 416 AND IDENTIFIED THERE AS A WOMAN'S KNIFE, KOOTZNOO INDIANS (KOLUSHAN STOCK).

Catalogue card lists as Hutsnuwu/Kootznahoo, but Anthropology catalogue ledger book does not list that people/locality for this artifact, only for 60109 and 60111.