From card: "Front made of skin from deer legs with dewclaws attached. Red cloth at top with decoration in white, blue and green beads. Bound at edges with black cloth decorated with beads, mostly yellow."This wall pocket was originally catalogued as Northern Woodlands but has been stored with the Tlingit collections for many years. Compare to Tlingit wall pockets Fig. 1.6 - Fig. 1.8, pp. 48 -49, in Smetzer, Megan A. 2021. Painful Beauty : Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience. Seattle: Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum : University of Washington Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85691/ .

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: "Woven grass."Original label attached to artifact says "Lillie [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.No catalog card found in card file

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=661, retrieved 3-31-2012: Cradle. The front of this fringed and beaded cradle is made of tanned hide and the back is covered with spotted deer fur. The small pouch that hangs from the front would have contained the child's umbilical cord, saved from birth, as well as amulets such as miniature paddles, arrowheads, or earrings. When children were older their mothers hung these amulet pouches around their necks for continuing spiritual protection.

FROM CARD: "SHELL, A HOOP, THE JOINT IS SCARFED AND LASHED. ONE HEAD STRETCHED OVER HOOP AND HAILED TO BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR STRIPS OF HIDE FORM THE HEAD; ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND TIED IN THE MIDDLE, FORMING A CROSS FOR A HANDLE." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM OF THE TLINKITS, KOLUSCHAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS THE HOOP AND NAILED TO THE BACK EDGE, THE HANDLE BEING FORMED OF THONGS TIED TOGETHER AT THE BACK. DIAMETER, 14 1/2 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA. 20,731. COLLECTED, 1875, BY JAMES G. SWAN."

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.