FROM CARD: "PEOPLE *CHILKAT-SITKA ? 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: "$1.50." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Leather, 2 inches broad, to which are attached four long wooden ornaments, the lower parts by which they are secured being carved in shape of a man's face, painted blue, and the upper parts being plain, painted black, and grooved on inner surface (red). The tops are ornamented with tufts of white sean's down, and held together in vertical position by a band or cord. Worn by Shaman of Sitka-Kwan Indians in ceremonial dances. Circumference, 20 ins. Height, 18 ins. Alaska, 1882. Collected by John J. McLean."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 619, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford.

FROM CARD: "WOOD."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 25 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Stencil of wood for stamping face for festival or ceremonial occasions for either men or women ... carved to represent a birds wing and eye."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)".

FROM CARD: "6/13/67 LOANED TO NAT'L ARCHIVES. RETURNED 8/5/68. REFER: COLLINS' MS. P. 900."Note: E63556 and 63557 were originally identified on their catalogue card as "Oomiak" paddles. However 63557 is actually a canoe model. It is a bit unclear in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book (from which the catalogue card is derived) whether 63556 and 7 were listed there as oomiaks (i.e. boats or more likely boat models), or as oomiak or boat paddles, like 63553-5.

FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 64, P. 61. " Crossroads figure caption identifies pipe as representing "... a killer whale "tail-walking", as it sometimes appears, inspecting the world above water ...".

From card: "# 72701 (Sash, Stikine Indians) - Illus. in USNM AR 1888; Pl. 18, fig. 72; p. 272." USNM AR for 1888 photo plate caption identifies as "Sash. Of cedar-bark rope worn over the shoulder. Ornamented with gull's down. Stikine Indians, Alaska. Collected by James G. Swan." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Girdle - Rope of twisted cedar bark, dyed red, ends frayed out and lashed together to form a strap, which is worn over shoulder and under opposite arm in dancing ceremonies. Sitka Indians [?? is Sitka a transcription error for Stikine?, Stikine would be more correct for Fort Wrangell], Fort Wrangel. Length of rope, 4 ft. 9 ins. Diam. 1 1/2 ins. Ft. Wrangel, Alaska, 1876. Collected by J. G. Swan." Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a former number of 20910 for both 72701 and 72702 and says "Reentered to avoid confusion of nos." They are both listed as Sitka Inds. [?? is Sitka a transcription error for Stikine?, Stikine would be more correct for Fort Wrangell], Fort Wrangel, Alaska, collected June 9, 1876. If this former number is correct, these objects would be part of accession 4730, and would have been more likely collected in 1875 and accessioned in 1876. See also remarks for E20910.

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 3 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List also identifies object as "Horn of the mountain goat in preparation of manufacture for spoon handle. It has been partially shaped and roughly cut, and is now ready to be worked down and ornamentally carved."