From card: "Twined with decorative designs in woolen yarn wrapping."Catalogued as a basketry bowl, however object currently with this number is a basket twined over a long-necked glass bottle. Atypical for Tlingit; could be Aleut?

Accession record describes this object as the "stone image of a seal, worn and used by a Thlinket Indian of Sitka as a head-scratcher."Listed on page 46 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)".

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

From card: "Mountain sheep horn. Old specimen. Formerly part of the E. H. Harriman Coll. [Accession # 54171 for year 1912]. See [former] catalog number 274,233. Probably Tlingit. Data written on bottom of specimen is 'Tongass Narrows, Alaska'." Note: Harriman Accession was collected by John Green Brady, 1878 - 1909.

FROM CARD: "FOR GRINDING NATIVE TOBACCO FOR CHEWING. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 63, FIG. 337, PG. 344. LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 4/18/67. RET. 12/13/67. LOANED TO THE ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA 12/3/75. RETURNED: 3-25-76."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Chilcat. USNM AR for 1888 identifies as Sitka. Sitka has been typed on the catalogue card (card was typed 1965 or later.)

Though catalogued as #3 in the collection, this object is either #2 or #3 on the detailed list filed in the accession record, both of which are identified as tobacco or snuff mortars from Skeena River, B.C..A cast of this mortar was cataloged as E229786 [there is also a mold]