FROM CARD: "BLOCK AND ROPE. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 13; P. 280."Listed on page 45 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)".

McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonia. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.

From card: "Wood finely carved. $10.00. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 26, fig. 113; p. 286. [Identified in this publication as a war spear.] Triangular bayonet point with scabbbard of wood. Attributed to Haida by Duff, Holm & Reid in Arts of the Raven, The Vancouver Art Gallery June - September, 1967 Item 434. 4/18/67: loaned to Vancouver Art Gall. 12/13/67 Returned by Vancouver. Loan: Crossroads; Loan returned: Jan 21, 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue, Fig. 312, p. 232." Identified in Crossroads catalogue photo caption as "Spear, Tlingit, carved like a totem pole with interlocked crest and mythical figures, this spear also served as a ceremonial staff."

FROM CARD: "EX. CANTERBURY MUS, JUNE 1900. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; FIGS. 138-9; P. 410. NEG. #86-6978 & 86-6979."

FROM CARD: "MODEL CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, WITH TWO THWARTS, WHICH ORIGINALLY HAD FIGURES SITTING ON THEM BUT WHICH WERE NOT PRESENT IN 1963-R. ELDER. ORIGINALLY HAD WHITE PAINT OUTSIDE AND RED INSIDE BUT MOST OF IT HAS COME OFF. ON THE PROW END THERE IS A HEAVY WOODEN EXTENSION FOR BREAKING THE WAY THROUGH ICE. THOUGH ORIGINAL CARD SAID WAS "BADLY DAMAGED", AS A WHOLE THERE IS NO DAMAGE (EXCEPT PAINT LOSS AND THE MISLAYING OF THE FIGURES) NOV. 1963. R. ELDER."

Accession file identifies original #99 as 1 fish line made of spruce roots, and two Halibut hooks from Klawark [i.e Klawock] village. The fish line was given catalogue # E20888 and the two halibut hooks were given # E20889. Apparently during cataloguing, only E20888 was identified in the ledger book and catalogue card as Tlingit from Klawock; this information was not listed, apparently in an oversight, for the halibut hooks. The culture/locality information for E20889 has now been been changed to match E20888.

FROM CARD: "WORN AS A FALSE FACE. HAS MOVABLE EYES AND MANDIBLE; MOUTH PIECE OF TIN; COPPER STRIP NAILED OVER LEFT BROW. THIS MASK IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM THE NAIS [NASS] RIVER GROUP OF THE TSINSHIM [TSIMSHIAN]. COLLECTOR'S TAG: #108 TLINGIT INDIAN - TAKU TRIBAL MARK. CONQUERED FROM NUMBER OF FLATHEADS OF NASH [NASS] R., B.C. PRICE $35.00 (SUGGESTED ORIGIN TSIMSIAN)."

FROM CARD FOR E60135: "[From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "HORN SPOONS. BOWLS, MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE HANDLES ARE MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, IN CANADA, AND THROUGHOUT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE HORN OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP IS USED IN MAKING DOMESTIC UTENSILS. THE HORN OF THE GOAT ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO THE CARVER'S ART, AND BY THE TLINGIT INDIANS IS CARVED AND ENGRAVED TO REPRESENT TOTEMIC IDEAS." (NOTE: THIS LABEL APPLIES TO 60,135-60,141; 10,389)."