FROM CARD: "CLASP BROKEN. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF SILVER COIN, HAMMERED OUT FLAT AND TURNED INTO REQUIRED SHAPE. ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC CARVINGS. SECURED ABOUT THE WRIST BY A CLASP. WIDTH, 2/3 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,541. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

Accession file identifies original #88, Catalogue Nos. E20870 - 73, as 4 baskets from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people], Alaska. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Chatham Strait.

From card: "Womans face with labret. Painted blue; eyebrows and pupils black; nostrils, ears, and lips red; designs painted over right eyebrow, on left cheek, and right chin. One leather thong, for slipping over wearers ear, remains."

From card: "Carved from the solid. Hardwood. Pained in green, vermillion and black. Hair tufts (now missing) inserted in a series of holes extending over apex of crown from ear to ear. Teeth, apparently of a white shell inserted in excavated trenches in upper and lower jaws. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. XIII, fig. 42, p. 270." Identified in the publication as a wooden helmet. Per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009, helmet is in form of a human with shark characteristics, including eyes with downturning outer corners, and gills, and back of helmet has carved shark formline imagery.Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Florence belives the owner of this helmet was Shark clan.

As of 2010, this object appears to be missing some of its parts/incomplete. It currently consists only of a carved and painted flat wooden bird figure. Back of figure appears to be marked possibly "Sitka" and $2.00. The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man standing on bird" (though the figure of the man is not currently present). Accession record lists a price of $2.00 for that carving. Based on the Sitka locality, it is possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

FROM CARD: "THIS SHIRT IS OF DRESSED SKIN. THERE ARE PANELS OF RED MATERIAL OVER THE SHOULDER AND AROUND THE NECK. THESE ARE OUTLINED IN BLACK MATERIAL AND EDGED WITH WHITE BEADS. THERE ARE BEAD DESIGNS ON TOP OF THE RED CLOTH MATERIAL; THERE ARE OTHER PANELS OF THIS RED MATERIAL AT THE CHEST AND V SHAPED PANELS AT THE BOTTOM AND AT THE CENTER OF THE SHIRT, ALL OF WHICH ARE BEADED. THE BOTTOM OF THE LOWER TWO PANELS HAVE DANGLERS ATTACHED AT THE END OF STRINGS OF BEADS. SEE CAT. NO. 357591 FOR PANTS WHICH POSSIBLY BELONG WITH THIS SHIRT. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED JUNE 12, 1974. REFER: HENRY COLLINS, ETC. 'THE FAR NORTH', (ILL. EXHIBITION CATALOG), NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, 1973, P. 161, NO. 205, ATTRIBUTED TO THE TLINGIT." MATERIALS IDENTIFIED IN THE FAR NORTH AS: BUCKSKIN, TRADE FELT, POLYCHROME BEADS, BIRD BEEKS AND OTHER HORN MATERIALS, SINEW AND THREAD. Note that the entry on this shirt or tunic in The Far North catalogue on p. 160 says: "This shirt exemplifies many qualities of Athabaskan Indian materials and workmanship, but was almost certainly made for Tlingit use. A similar shirt in the University Museum, Philadelphia (NA 10516), depicts in beadwork embroidery the specific eagle and killer whale emblems of this coastal clan, emphasizing the Tlingit patronage of this essentially Indian style."