FROM CARD: "BOW ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888; PL. 26, FIG.111; P. 286. ARROW ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT. 1893; PL. 51, FIG. 2; P. 679."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 31, FIG. 155; P. 286 (TLINGIT)." FROM CARD: "FISHHOOK.---MADE OF SPRUCE, REPRESENTING A SEA-GULL. MADE IN TWO PIECES, LASHED AT THE JOINT WITH CEDAR BARK, THE SHANKS BEING CARVED WITH DESIGNS SUPPOSED TO GIVE GOOD LUCK TO THE FISHERMAN. THE BARBS WERE FORMERLY OF BONE OR SHELL, BUT LATER OF IRON. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), SITKA, ALASKA. 42,976. COLLECTED BY COMMANDER L. A. BEARDSLEE, U.S.N. NEG.NO. 6205."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.

From card: "Evidently a part of some shaman's paraphernalia. The thin slab of whalebone has incided figurine heads at either end, one resembling a turtle, the other a gull. Some of the incised lines are recent, others show weathering."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1890; Pl. 72, fig. 1; p. 416 Woman's knife, Kootznoo Indians (Kolushan stock)."From old label glued to artifact: "Ancient War Weapon, Koutznow Indians, Admiralty Island, Chatham Strait, Alaska Ter. June 24 1875 J.G. Swan"

FROM CARD: "60156A,B*. "*TWO SPECIMENS WERE FOUND WITH THIS NUMBER; HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED A & B."Listed on page 41 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

At one time, the hat brim for this basketry hat had been given # 316947 and the hat crown was separately numbered as 316957. Subsequently, both parts of the hat have been reunited under number E316947.

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.