The object name for catalog numbers e20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (e20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.

FROM CARD: "LEDGER BOOK CALLS THIS "CARVED STATUE (SHAMAN'S GUARD)" AND ALSO COMMENTS "OLD. ONE OF THE TWO CORNER POSTS." THIS REPLACEMENT CATALOGUE CARD MADE 4/14/1989 FROM LEDGER BOOK AND INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SUE ROWLEY [who identifies object as a house post].-F. PICKERING."Catalogue card lists a photo negative number of MNH2331 for this object, but that is an error; MNH2331 is a photo of a different object.

FROM CARD: "MADE OF POROUS STONE AND SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN USED IN POUNDING CEDAR BARK."

From card: "Leather neckpiece, bone ornaments."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From 2008 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report by Michele Austin-Dennehy: The shaman's necklace has a stiff leather covered ring with hanging pendants of bone. The neckring is a large oval stiff ring, round in section, possibly of wood covered with an inner wrapping of fabric and an outer cover of reddish tanned leather stitched with sinew. The leather is pieced to the ring with very visible overcast stitching of the sinew thread. There are three flat carved and incised pendants and twenty-two long finger like pendants are attached to the ring with sinew cordage. The largest pendant is attached just below the ring and hangs horizontally. It is attached to the neckring through a small perforation on the upper back of the carving. Two smaller rectangular pendants flank the central one. The top and bottom of each pendant has a small perforation for attachment to the neckring. The twenty two narrow tapering finger like pendants hang from sinew and replacement thread through perforations at the top of each pendant. The thread is sewn into the cloth and leather of the neckring. Some of the pendants taper to a point, others are blunt. Some curve along their length.

FROM CARD: "THE BODY REPRESENTS A RAVEN, ITS BREAST A SPARROW HAWK. ON ITS BACK IS A PROSTRATE WOOD DEMON, HIS TONGUE PLUCKED BY A FROG, THAT IS HELD IN THE BEAK OF A KING FISHER. SEE. U.S.M. REPORT 1888, P. 324, ILL. PL. LIV, NO. 290."

FROM CARD: "60152-53. 60153 EXCHANGED (2). #60153 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIG. 228(?); P. 318."

FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. [Dagger] ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 311, P.232. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DOUBLE-BLADED DAGGER AND SHEATHS.--BLADES MADE OF STEEL. THE HANDLE, WHICH IS MOUNTED WITH COPPER AND WRAPPED IN LEATHER, IS SET BETWEEN THE TWO BLADES. THE BLADE ABOVE THE HANDLE IS MUCH SHORTER THAN THE ONE BELOW. ATTACHED TO THE HANDLE IS A LEATHER STRIP WITH A HOLE CUT NEAR THE END TO LET IN THE MIDDLE FINGER. THE STRIP IS THEN TWISTED ABOUT THE WRIST TO SECURE THE WEAPON FIRMLY IN THE HAND SO THAT THE WARRIOR NEVER PARTS WITH HIS WEAPON UNTIL DEATH. SHEATHS FOR BOTH BLADES MADE OF LEATHER. LENGTH OF UPPER BLADE, 4 3/4 INCHES; LENGTH OF LOWER BLADE, 12 3/4 INCHES. INDIANS OF ALASKA. 9,288. COLLECTED BY DR. A. H. HOFF, U. S. A."2-part sheath.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. War knife and sheath (2 parts) both on loan. See E9288-1 for knife/dagger.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on dagger and sheath http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=506 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Dagger, Tlingit Tlingit warriors possessed iron-bladed knives long before Western contact, crafted from metal found on Asian ships that drifted across the Pacific. Sophisticated indigenous iron-working techniques produced honed and tempered blades, often with ground-on flutes. The double-ended war dagger was worn around the neck in a leather sheath and used in hand-to-hand combat. George Ramos said that a warrior tied his knife to his wrist before going into battle so that it would not be lost.

FROM CARD: "UPPER HALF OF FACE, WITH CENTRAL RIDGE, PAINTED BLUE; ROUND EYES, BLACK; CLOSED MOUTH RED. LEATHER TIES IN BACK."