FROM CARD: "COVERED. NOS. 168,267-8: ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 65; P. 548. NO. 168,267, 8 1/2" HIGH. 168,268, 6 3/4" HIGH. 168,269,7" HIGH. EXCHANGE FOR ACCESSION NO. 45,092. JAN. 12, 1906. 168268: NEG. #86-6985 & 86-6986."

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".

Objects are from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1166.

Illus. Fig. 72 p. 71 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identitied there as prehistoricTlingit stone snake-beast with red pigments.

FROM CARD: "60145-48. #60145 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888; PL. 42, FIG. 226; P. 318."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".

FROM CARD: "DESIGN: THE THUNDER BIRD USED IN THE SECRET SOCIETIES. (DR. BOAS)."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?

From card: "Compare with #23375 (Makah - Neah Bay) - GP."72683, 72684, 72696 and 72697 are identified as Swan original # 45. Swan's list in the accession file identifies # 45 as "3 Indian baskets from Sitka, and wooden canoe bailer." Because of this listing, the canoe bailer was assumed by the cataloguer as from Sitka as well and catalogue card identifies it as Sitka Tlingit. Note however that Anthropology staffer George Phebus (listed as GP on catalogue card) comments that this canoe bailer is similar in form to Makah canoe bailers.

From card: "NW Coast, Tlingit? S. E. Alaska - Br. Col. A crown like headdress with feathers and a small painted mask frontlet depicting a distorted human face." Stored Tlingit.

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.