FROM CARD: "TWO BLADED DAGGER. MADE OF IRON, ONE BLADE LONG AND TAPERING, THE OTHER SHORT. THE UPPER OR OUTER SIDE OF EACH BLADE IS DIVIDED INTO THREE FLAT SURFACES, AND IN HIGHLY-FINISHED EXAMPLES THE MIDDLE SURFACE IS RAISED SLIGHTLY. GRIP BETWEEN THE BLADES NARROWED AND WRAPPED WITH CLOTH OR LEATHER. HAS NOTCHES CUT INTO THE BLADES AND ALSO RIVETS OF BRASS SET IN. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, ART. 9; P1. 34, NO. 9; P. 48. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 261. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 12 LEFT, PG. 217."Florence Sheakley and Ruth Demmert, both elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These knives feature a Raven crest, and was not used for carving, but instead used for war.

From card: "Carved wood. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. 17, fig. 63, p. 272. See Andrews, 'Indian Primitive', p. 66." Plate caption in USNM AR for 1888 identifies object as "Dance Wand. Carried in the hand. Ornamented with human hair. Hoodsinoo Indians (Koluschan stock) [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Alaska. Collected by Paymaster E. B. Webster, U.S. Navy." On p. 272 of the same report Niblack writes that this object is "... a Tlingit ceremonial dance wand in the shape of a dagger ..."

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."