This is probably the mask listed in August 29, 1872 letter from Colyer in accession file as # "32, Indian Mask, Sitka, Chilcat Tribe."

From card: "S. E. Alaska (Tlingit?). Quilled (geometric pattern) shoulder decoration - slight red paint decoration. Orig. No. 1228?" Stored Tlingit.

The object name for catalog numbers E20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (E20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.On exhibit in NMNH Sant Ocean Hall. 2014 exhibit caption identifies this as salmon-boy carving, Tlingit.

From card: "Carved in high relief. Represents the land otter. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit as Shaman's Mask - The Spirit of the Land Otter Man, Tlingit. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 7, pg. 614."

FROM CARD: "CUT ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO BY EHKAS. 6/14/45: REPAIRED AND RESTORED BY THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY, IN THE PROCESS ABOUT 2 FEET OF THE BACK END HAD TO BE CUT AWAY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO BADLY DECAYED TO PRESERVE, BUT THIS PART HAD ONLY A MINIMUM OF CARVING ON IT, MOSTLY JUST CONTINUATION OF THE FEATHERS."Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit crow or raven figure appears to originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.