Alan Zuboff, Linda Wynne, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The group agrees that the trousers are made of caribou hide. It was likely obtained through trade because Tlingits didn't normally hunt caribou because the animals were not local. The individual stitching of the quills cannot be seen, which suggests the design work was woven on a loom and not directly onto the garment.

From card: "Painted. NWC type."Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

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: "SQUIRREL."

FROM CARD: "CARVED. 1 WAS TRANSFERRED TO G.C.M. AND RETURNED TO ETHNOLOGY DEC. 6, 1902. P.E.B."

FROM CARD: "WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "16220 FROM: PAGE 55, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 36. CARVED BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED LENGTH: 7 3/4 TLINGIT, SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY W. H. DALL IN 1874. 16,220."

FROM CARD: "DANCING ORNAMENT DYED RED. #20849 HEAD DRESS - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 18, FIG. 67, P. 270." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESSES.---MADE OF CEDAR BARK ROPE, STAINED RED WITH THE JUICE OF THE ALDER. WORN IN THE WINTER CEREMONIAL DANCES OF THE KWAKIUTL AND OTHER SOUTHERN COAST INDIANS. HOODSINOO INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN FAMILY), ADMIRALTY ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,849, 20,910. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THIS STYLE IS BORROWED BY THE NORTHERN INDIANS AND WORN BY THEM IN THEIR CEREMONIALS, BUT NOT WITH THE SAME SIGNIFICANCE AS IN THE SOUTH."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20849, 20850 and 20910 as original number 70, and lists as Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Admiralty Island, Alaska. List in accession file identifies no people or locality for original # 70. The old exhibit labels for E20910 have conflicting locality information, with one saying Admiralty Island, and the other Fort Wrangell.