FROM CARD: "A ROUND STICK WITH A HANDLE IN THE MIDDLE ITS SIDES STAINED RED. SMALL HOLES ARE MADE IN THE END HERE AND THERE; FROM THEM PROCEED COTTON CORDS TO WHICH ARE FASTENED MORMON [probably means puffin] BILLS."

From card: "Wood, ancient eagle head. 11 1/2 in. long. 12/19/66: Accounted for. - GP."E104638 - E104641 appear to be the same objects catalogued previously as E73822, part of Accession No. 15196, and described on catalogue card for that number as "Ancient Bone and Wood Instrument, 4; Upper Yukon River, Alaska; Used for trapping mink & martin; Av. [length] 10 1/2 in." E73822 does not have a culture identified on card, ledger book, or in accession record.

This is a model of the type of canoe called a Head canoe, with painted crests at bow and stern. As of 2011, there are 3 model paddles with this canoe model.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This model is possibly a feast dish and a prime example of a classic head canoe. It appears to be made by a person of Tlingit origin though it contains classic Bella Bella designs and sculpting. This object was probably made to be sold.

Ruth Demmert and Alan Zuboff, elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat, either Tlingit or Haida made, and the painted design suggests a wealthy woman owned this hat. This object would be personal property, not clan property. The design might be a raven crest, due to the tufts design older ravens have. Alan comments that, for Angoon, the presence of potlatch rings designate clan property, but he can't say for this hat not knowing where it came from.Hat was purchased by Victor Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6780, identified as Chilkat (Evans noted that hat was damaged in shipping - crown was broken). See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .

FROM CARD: "SHAPE OF A FROG."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 2 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan.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)".

FROM CARD: "PUTNAM 5/88." This seems to refer to a partial transfer. This information is also written in the second ledger book in red ink.The first Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this object as "native cord from spruce roots, 1 bundle or coil." The second ledger book has this description, but the words "packing box" have been added as an addition in red ink to the description. In 1888, a bent wood box with this number was transferred to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. As of 2010, one coiled length of fiber cord with this number is still in the Anthropology collections.

From card: "Old twined basket stretched around a hoop of wood; oval in shape."In letter dated April 17, 1901 in accession file, Emmons identifies this object as from Killisnoo. However, he also identifies Killisnoo as on Admiralty Island, but Killisnoo is on Killisnoo Island; it is Angoon which is on Admiralty Island. Because of this confusion, and because of the fact that Killisnoo and Angoon are only 2 miles apart, it is unclear whether this object was collected at Killisnoo or Angoon.