From card: "Fine weave in natural color with overlaid panel designs in berry stain representing human faces."

CATALOG CARD SAYS SENT AS A GIFT TO CHARLESTON MUSEUM, CHARLESTON, S.C., NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEP 1989.

FROM CARD: "IMITATED IN STRAW PLAIT (2)." Old USNM tag with artifact identifies as "Wine glass imitated in straw [sic] plait."

FROM CARD: "THOUGH THIS WAS COLLECTED, PRESUMABLY BOUGHT, IN THE TERRITORY OF THE TLINKIT PEOPLE DR. HOFF THOUGHT THAT IT WAS OF CHUKCHEE ORIGIN. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1893; PL. 21, FIG. 1; P. 644. REF. TO U.S.N. MUS. REP. 1893. P. 643, PL. 21."Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The elders commented that they had never seen Tlingit armor like this before, and this may actually be a more decorative object. The buttons on this object were commercially made and the coins on this object were sewn on with either sinew, braided sinew, or twine. Florence commented that this object looks like it was made from mooseskin.

FROM CARD: "WOODEN HANDLE CARVED IN SHAPE OF ANIMAL HEAD. ONE ABALONE SHELL INLAY REMAINS IN MOUTH. COPPER PLATE INSERTED AT END OF TANG, EXTENDING OVER PART OF LOWER BLADE. BLADE OF IRON."McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonyah. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.

FROM CARD: "SENT AS LOAN TO L. J. BERGER - AMER. COLORTYPE CO. 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. MARCH 27, 1903. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; PL. 73; P. 548."