FROM CARD: "CUT ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO BY EHKAS. 6/14/45: REPAIRED AND RESTORED BY THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY, IN THE PROCESS ABOUT 2 FEET OF THE BACK END HAD TO BE CUT AWAY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO BADLY DECAYED TO PRESERVE, BUT THIS PART HAD ONLY A MINIMUM OF CARVING ON IT, MOSTLY JUST CONTINUATION OF THE FEATHERS."Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit crow or raven figure appears to originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.

FROM CARD: "WHALE-BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 29 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan.

FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "STRIKE-A-LIGHT.---RECEPTACLE, MADE OF SEAL SKIN, CONTAINING FLINT AND PYRITES, AND A MASS OF SHREDDED CEDAR BARK FOR TINDER, OR KINDLING. THE RECEPTACLE IS ROLLED AROUND THE BARK AND FASTENED WITH A THONG. STIKINE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK), FORT WRANGELL, ALASKA. 20,861. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." The same information is also on an old typed label stored with the artifact.

FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH CENTER MEDALLION OF A NAVAL BUTTON [with anchor] COMBINED WITH REVERSE OF U.S. HALF DOLLAR [coin]."

From card: "Very fine weave of spruce root and cedar bark. Design [includes] the words: "Killisnoo Basket." in fern stem."

FROM CARD: "CRUDELY CARVED OF CEDAR WOOD, ONE FIGURE ON TOP OF OTHER. LOWER ONE A SEATED HUMAN FIGURE WITH A FACE CARVED ON THE BACK OF ITS HEAD, UPPER ONE STANDING ON TOP OF THE LOWER HOLDING A LIZARD-LIKE ANIMAL IN FRONT OF ITS TORSO, HAS A CROWN WITH UPSTANDING ELEMENTS."

FROM CARD: "60145-48. 60147: LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. 60147 ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 267, P. 206. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Identified in Crossroads as a soapberry spoon. "The soapberry, native to the dryer parts of the coast and interior plateau, can be whipped in water to a stiff pink froth, considered a delicacy and prized for feasts. The carved design on this paddle like spoon for eating the froth represents a fish, probably a salmon. A tiny human face on the back of the head may be Salmon Boy, who was taken away by the salmon and who returned to teach humans how to properly treat the fish so that they would return each year to benefit mankind."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=590 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Soapberry spoon Soapberries are a prized feast food, traditionally acquired from Athabascan trading partners. Dried berries are whipped with water to make red foam and eaten with carved hardwood spoons. This spoon has a spine-like design along the handle, along with a bird's head pointing toward the end, and a spirit face on the back of the bowl.