FROM CARD: "SHELL, A HOOP, ITS JOINT SCARFED AND LASHED ONE HEAD STRETCHED OVER HOOP AND NAILED. THE HANDLE IS A DOUBLE THONG PASSED THROUGH OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HOOP." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM OF THE TLINKITS, KOLUSCHAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS THE HOOP AND NAILED. THONGS ACROSS THE BACK FORM A HANDLE. DIAMETER, 18 1/2 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA. 20,733. COLLECTED, 1875, BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "BENT BOWL; RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE; CARVED IN RELIEF; BASE ONCE PAINTED RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED AND SEWN." FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 73, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 64. BENT BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; BASE ONCE PAINTED RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED AND SEWN LENGTH: 21 1/2. TLINGIT, SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY VINCENT COLYER. CATALOGED OCTOBER 2, 1872. 11,372."

FROM CARD: "CURVED. USED IN HOLLOWING OUT BOATS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 9; P. 737."In American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 190 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/658453?seq=4), D. W. Prentiss, Jr. appears to describe a knife like this in use to hollow boats and dishes during his visit to Yakutat Bay, Alaska in 1895. Prentiss had served as an assistant to Dr. Frederick William True, travelling to the Pribilof Islands for research on the summer 1895 voyage of the U.S.S. Albatross, whose return voyage stopped at Yakutat Bay.

“4 pr. salad spoons and forks carved in wood by Koloshian Indians.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.

The objects in this accession were collected primarily for use on museum exhibit mannequins representing a Chilkat Tlingit family group. It may be speculated that this hair was to be used as part of the exhibit.

Carved decoration. Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

From card: "The exterior is painted to represent totemic animals."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 603, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "PLAIN, UNDECORATED."

FROM CARD: "TRANSFERRED IN 1870. ILLUS. IN BAE AR #3, PL. 21, FIG. 48, P. 187."