FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S NO. 168354 FISH-KNIFE. (YAKUTAT)."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 17 on list) appears to attribute this to the Yakutat Tlingit of Yakutat. List identifies this object as a "Woman's fish knife ... consisting of an iron blade set in a wooden handle, used by women to split and cut fish (halibut and salmon) for sun drying and curing for winter use."

FROM CARD: "CARVED. WORN BY MEDICINE-MAN. 6 PENDANTS ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; PL. 9; P. 768."List in accession file identifies #s 34 (E168370), 35 (E168371), and 36 (E168372) as "Bone necklaces worn by medicine men when practicing about the sick." The heading above the listing for #33 (E168369) says: "These three pieces [which is presumed to apply to #33, 34, and 35] were brought by the Chilkaht Indian traders + packers from the Gunannao? [word hard to read] people who live about the headwaters of the Yukon River." The museum cataloguer has interpreted Gunannao to be Gonaho, i.e. Gunahoo/Gunaaxoo or the Dry Bay Tlingit, and has listed that designation for E168369 - E168373. It may be instead that this is a version of the word Gunana, i.e. Athabaskan (including Tutchone, Tagish ...), as the Chilkat traded with them. The Yukon River location seems to support this, as that would apply to the Athabaskans, not the Gunaaxoo Tlingit. (See p. 57 in Emmons, George Thornton, and Frederica De Laguna. 1991. The Tlingit Indians. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 70. Seattle: University of Washington Press.)

From card: "Carved. Duck-shaped."One of these objects has the remains of a glued on label on the bottom. One may speculate that the label may have been a label from the Sheldon Jackson Insitute? Such labels appear on other artifacts in this collection. See E260339 for an example of an object with an extant label of this type, the text of which says: "Sheldon Jackson Institute, An Industrial Training School for Indian Boys and Girls, Sitka, Alaska."

Catalogue card indicates "Exchange - Lt. G. T. Emmons, USN, Princeton, New Jersey, Ja. 12, 1906." However, there is still an object in the collections with this number.