FROM CARD: "PLAIN BRACELET. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF SILVER COIN, HAMMERED INTO THE REQUIRED SHAPE. NO ORNAMENTATION AND NO CLASP. WIDTH, 2/3 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,543. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." FROM CARD: "BRACELETS (4).---SILVER BANDS, FROM 5/16 TO 11/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; WITH OPEN-SPRING CLASPS, PLAIN AND BURNISHED EXTERIORS. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 3/8 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,546, 19,545, 19,544, 19,543. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

From card: "Old wood, handle and bowl continuous, carved on surface; conventional bird at end. Formerly part of the E. H. Harriman coll. [Accession # 54171 for year 1912], see [former] catalog number 274,223." Note: Harriman Accession was collected by John Green Brady, 1878 - 1909.

From Swan original tag with artifact: [Represents] "Indian woman from Cooks Inlet a medicine or conjurer, [presumbably collected in] Sitka, Alaska, 1881, J.G. Swan." Brass? button on right wrist of figure is decorated with Heraldic eagle grasping a bundle of arrows and an olive branch; eagle has shield on breast with an I? in center of shield.

FROM CARD: "COVERED. NO. 168273,-6 1/2" HIGH. 168274, - 4 3/4" HIGH LX. AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR, 2-21-03. 168275-6 AND 168278, 3" HIGH. 168277 AND 168279, -3 1/2" HIGH. 168280, 5 1/2" HIGH. 168,281, -8" HIGH. 168,282, - 6". NO.168,276 EXCHANGED WITH THOMAS WILSON. NO. 168,279 EXCHANGED. - MS. J. G. SAYERS 4/10/1897. 110 MARYLAND AVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. SENT AS LOAN TO L. J BERGER-AMER.-COLORTYPE CO. 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.-MARCH 27, 1903. 168,272-82. NO.168278: SENT AS GIFT TO MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA. C/O DR. S. Y. JAMESON, PREST. AUG. 6, 1906. #168282 - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 73; P. 548. #168277-ON EXHIBIT: HALL 11, MAY 1990."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 103, P. 417. CARVED WOODEN SHARK'S HEAD WITH THREE FINS HINGED BEHIND GILL LINES; ATTACHED TO FRONT SECTION IS A STRIP OF RUBBER CLOTH TERMINATING IN A WOODEN REAR FIN. 'FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OLD SHAKES [Sheiyksh], FORMER CHIEF OF THE NANYAAYI [Naanya.aayí].'"

FROM CARD: "PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH CHINESE COINS. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.308, P. 231. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads caption identified as "The painted hide armor tunic ... is ornamented with carved bone "sharks' teeth" and Chinese coins. Chinese coins were widely traded on the Northwest Coast, not surprising given that the traders' principal marker for their furs was China."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=129 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Tunic, Tlingit This fringed moose-hide tunic resembles leather armor but is thinner and more decorated than what a fighter would wear in battle. A warrior's tunic would also be open on one side to allow freedom for his weapon arm. As a dance garment the tunic might have been worn for the ceremonial reenactment of war. Shamans also dressed themselves in armor to portray yek (helping spirits) who were "spirits of above," that is, warriors killed in battle. The tunic is ornamented with fossil sharks' teeth, both real and replicated in carved bone, and with Chinese coins imported by traders. "For a while I thought that it was an armor vest, but it wouldn't be made like that with all the fringe and ornaments. It must be for dancing.... The only other thing it could be is x'áan koonáayee, a commander's leather armor." -George Ramos (Tlingit), 2005.