FROM CARD: "COLORS IN YELLOW, BLUISH GREEN, AND BLACK. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN: CROSSROADS ON CONTINENTS, SEPT 22, 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 449, P. 311." Crossroads caption identifies as "Early in the 19th century Tlingit weavers began to make dancing robes completely covered with formline patterns derived from their painted art. The figures represented were crest animals, but they were often so conventionalized that their identity is not clear. A creature like this one on a nearly identical blanket was described to George Emmons as a "sea bear," while to Franz Boas it was identified ads a "standing eagle.""EVELYN VANDERHOOP, HAIDA WEAVER, IDENTIFIES THIS CHILKAT BLANKET AS A MIX OF MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL AND COMMERCIAL YARNS.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=351 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket likely features an eagle design.

Swan's list in the accession record indicates that this object, number 45 1/2 on the list, was collected at Masset, B.C. in July 1883 but he identifies this as "made at Chilkat Alaska."

Original label attached to artifact says "Agnes Dan [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

FROM CARD: "TWINED BASKET MAT. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL.36, FIG. 183; P. 314. ONE SENT TO THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM, NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEPT. 26, 1989. SEE ALSO ACC. 387023." FROM CARD: "...LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."

FROM CARD: "18944-5. THESE ARE PART OF A CHILCAT SHAMAN'S SET. ALAN R. SAWYER 2/1982."