FROM CARD: "BLACK WOOD, BROAD ROUND BOTTOM, SHARP CURVED PROJECTING END. THE MARK ON THIS OF JOSEPH HENRY, JUST REFERRED TO THE THEN SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN, TO WHOM IT WAS SENT."The Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists the donor for boat #26615 as Edward Palmer, but it lists no donor for #26616. Someone has listed Palmer as the collector/donor for 26616 on its catalogue card, on the assumption that Palmer might have collected it as well, but that assumption is questionable. Accession number for this object is also unclear. Canoe was entered into the Anthropology catalogue ledger book in 1876 (and presumably possibly accessioned in 1876 or before?) This 1870's date is seemingly confirmed by the reference to it having been sent to Joseph Henry, who was the Secretary (Head) of the Smithsonian from 1846-1878. Speculatively, one possibility may be that this is the wooden canoe donated by Vincent Colyer under Accession No. 2478, in 1872, as Colyer was corresponding with Joseph Henry concerning the donation, so the canoe would presumably have been sent to Henry's attention. Colyer identified his canoe as being from the "Stackeen River" (i.e. the Stikine River), Alaska.

FROM CARD: "IMITATED IN STRAW PLAIT. 2/13/67 - 2 LOCATED MARKED A & B."

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOODEN KILLER WHALE WITH LONG FLAT UPRIGHT BACK FIN. PAINTED BLACK. MADE TO WEAR ON TOP OF HEAD, WITH CORDS FOR TYING UNDER WEARER'S CHIN. 'FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OLD SHAKES [Sheiyksh], FORMER CHIEF OF THE NANYAAYI [Naanya.aayí].' ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 104, P. 418."

Per Anthropology Catalogue ledger book, this is a model made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes of Catalogue No. E60120. Original identified as Hoonah and Hutsnuwu Tlingit, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "WIDE, TRUNCATED CONE SHAPED, OF CEDAR BARK, IN TWILLED TWINED WEAVING, (MODIFIED). NATURAL COLOR, HEADBAND INSIDE AND COTTON CLOTH TIES. VERY FINE TIGHT WEAVING, IN FINE CONDITION. (11/1963)."Object is a woman's hat from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1168.Alan Zuboff, an elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This object is a working hat and would not be used as at.oow (clan property).

FLATTENED HUMAN HEAD AND NECK. NECK HAS HOLE.

Echini are presumably sea urchins. E88759 - 61 are on the list of objects purchased by Swan in Masset, a Haida town, in July 1883. The catalogue card lists them as Haida. However, the catalogue card also lists them as "Chilcat Inds." The source of this Chilkat attribution is unknown, though it may perhaps be a misreading of the original Anthropology catalogue ledger book, which identifies E88752, whose entry is on the same page and above the entries for these nets, as of Chilkat origin.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.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=591 , retrieved 11-28-2011: Neck Ring Ring of cedar bark rope adorned with two carved crests, Wolf and Eagle. Today, potlatch song leaders wear bark rings.