From card: "Of soft deer skin, with cut fringe. Row of flannel fringe sewed on. Upper border of otter skin. Surface painted with designs. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64. Returned 2/15/66."Accession record 41512 identifies this object as "skin skirt with dew-claws." See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several Emmons accessions. It may contain information about # E221178? # E221178 may be the object referred to on a list at the end of that file as: "Shamans dance apron of caribou skin painted."

Catalogue card lists as Hutsnuwu/Kootznahoo, but Anthropology catalogue ledger book does not list that people/locality for this artifact, only for 60111 and 60113.

FROM CARD: "BEAR'S JAW AND TUSKS."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 7 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Bear's jaw ... used to give the fine edge to carving knives after they had undergone sharpening on? the whetstone. The edge is drawn on the tusks."

FROM CARD: "PLAIN, NO DECORATION. FORM OF THE TRADITIONAL "COPPER". REF. DAWSON, "HAIDA INDIANS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISL.," CANADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PROVISIONAL REPORT 1878, FIG. 135 B."In a letter dated September 8, 1881 filed in Accession No. 11616, in the postscript to the letter McLean says "I send by this mail a copper shield made by a Hoochenoo [Hutsnuwu Tlingit] Indian from native copper, and said to antedate the Russian occupation of Alaska. This curiosity is sent with the compliments of Mr. Carl Spuhn Manager NW Trdg. Co. [Northwest Trading Company] S.E. Alaska." It is possible this refers to E60648 (or E67947)?

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."