1 arrow from this set is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "[Bow] 75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabascan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75454 as Tlingit type; narrow.] An arrow, # 75454 was lent to the Crossroads of Continents exhibit, Sept., 1988, as # 16407 (by mistake). Hence the object illustrated in the Crossroads catalog as # 16407 [Fig. 76 on p. 73] is actually # 75454. The mistake was discovered when the loan returned Jan. 21, 1993. (S. Crawford, 2-23-93)." Identified in Crossroads catalogue caption as "Harpoon arrow for sea otters."One arrow appears in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell. The entry on this arrow in the website http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=616 , retrieved 12-30-2011, is the source of the information below: Sea otter arrow, Tlingit, Yakutat, Alaska. Fleets of canoes cruised the coast to find sea otters, encircling one when it was found. Hunters pierced it with the barbed tips of harpoon-arrows, which then dislodged from the shafts, leaving them to trail behind on sinew cords. Otters were depleted in most of southeast Alaska by 1825, but hunting continued at Lituya Bay, Yakutat, and Icy Bay until the early twentieth century. This arrow has a willow shaft and barbed bone tip. Length 123 cm..

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."Note: catalogue card lists this object as "small, not broken when rec'd." However, Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies it as "small, and broken when rec'd."

From card: "Rope of cedar bark to which are attached skin of a bird and a carved wood figure. From a medicine man's grave."

FROM CARD: "COVERED. NOS. 168,267-8: ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 65; P. 548. NO. 168,267, 8 1/2" HIGH. 168,268, 6 3/4" HIGH. 168,269,7" HIGH. EXCHANGE FOR ACCESSION NO. 45,092. JAN. 12, 1906. 168268: NEG. #86-6985 & 86-6986."

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".

Objects are from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1166.