FROM CARD: "BIRD-FORM BOX, CARVED FROM ONE PIECE. HEAD AND TAIL FORM HANDLES; PAINTED RED AND BLACK; BIRD LIES ON BACK, WITH OPENING IN ITS BELLY. LOANED: RENWICK, JULY 18, 1972 (FOOD PREPARATION). RET'D.: 9-5-1974."

From card: "A staff of wood with brass cap, carved to represent [starting at brass cap] bear, raven, frog, scaled serpent."Emmons in the accession file identifies this as a fish dance staff. Though this was catalogued as from Killisnoo, Alaska, in a letter dated August 20, 1903 in the accession file Emmons notes among objects shipped from Juneau this object and identifies it further as "Dance wand or chiefs beating stick used to keep time to the dance song[;] is from the Stickheen [Stikine] qwan[;] on it is represented the bear, the raven, the frog and an eel like salt water fish."

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *TLINGIT OF SITKA. REMARKS: MADE OF WOOD, CARVED IN TOTEMIC DESIGNS AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. *THERE IS SOME CONFUSION AS TO THE PROVENIENCE OF THIS SPECIMEN. ACCORDING TO THE CATALOG BOOK IT IS ALEUT, BUT IN USNM AR 1884, PT II, PL. XVII (LEGEND) IT APPEARS TO BE TLINGIT (SITKA). IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO #20771 COLL. BY J. G. SWAN AT SITKA IN 1875. BOTH SPECIMENS ARE EXTENSIVELY CARVED IN TYPICAL NW COAST ART MOTIFS. GEP. THE TLINKIT ARE KNOWN NOT TO HAVE USED THE THROWING STICK, WHILE IT OCCURS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE ESKIMO AREA. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 27, FIG. 127A,B; P. 286. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N44, P.141."Provenience uncertain. Original catalogue lists locality as Unalaska/Ounalaska, i.e. Aleutian Islands, but object was later published/identified as Tlingit from Sitka.Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this object is Eagle, and so belongs to the Eagle clan, but might have been made for trade.

FROM CARD: "PLAIN BRACELET. INVENTORIED 1979."

FROM CARD: "43234-6. # 43236-WITH HANDLE."

From card: "Brittle; small section broken out; painted with characteristic designs in red, black, blue, and green." In a 1937 letter in the accession file, the donor notes that she purchased this "more than 30 years ago" and identifies it as from Sitka.

Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, and Florence Sheakley made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These moccasins feature size 10 beads and the inner lining looks like baby seal fur. Florence commented that her mother used to make this kind of slipper with a high top for male dancers.