FROM CARD: "IMITATED IN STRAW PLAIT. 2/13/67 - 2 LOCATED MARKED A & B."

From card: "Willow hoops probably part of a headdress."

FROM CARD: "CARVED WITH HERALDIC DEVICES."List in accession record identifies as "#62 - 2 pieces of leather, carved in heraldic designs, from Koutznow Indians, Admiralty Island Chatham Strait, Alaska."

FROM CARD: "COPPER." AS OF 2000, CAT. #67948 CONSISTS OF ONE TRIPLE COLUMN OF CYLINDRICAL WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. -F. PICKERING 6-14-2000Provenience 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: "Two blocks of wood, one with a boss and the other a depression. The soft horn is pressed into shape between them."Emmons letter of April 17, 1901 in the accession file, lists as being part of this accession: "1 mould for spoon bowls of horn from Chilkat." It is unclear if Emmons means Chilkat the people or Chilkat the place (i.e. Klukwan?).Listed on page 50 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 (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "TROCADERO 7-85. EXCHANGE-MISS. GRACE NICHOLSON 46 N. LOS ROBLES AVENUE, PASADENA, CALIF. JUNE 20, 1904."Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, has identified some, but not all, of these mats as of Makah manufacture, 3-2003.Listed on page 44 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".In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated they have a mat listed as old Smithsonian # 20727, Branly catalog number 71.1885.78.330. 20727 may not be the correct number. It is possible this object is actually E20728, since records indicate at least one mat from 20728 went to the Trocadero Museum in 1885.

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."

FROM CARD: "WITH A FIGURE INSIDE."Listed on page 42 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".