From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Bracelet - Horn, inlaid with pearl shell, Haliotis kamschatkensis [i.e. abalone]. Nasses Indians, near Fort Simpson. Greatest diam. 2 1/2 ins. Least diam. 1 1/2 ins. British Columbia, 1870. Collected by Lieut. F. W.[sic, should be M.] Ring, U.S.A."

Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

FROM CARD: "GRAY GRANITE, SMOOTH FINISH, SHALLOW GROOVE CUT AROUND EXTERIOR HORIZONTALLY."

FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. EACH SECTION IS EXCAVATED FROM END TO END. WHEN BOUND TOGETHER FORMING AN OPEN TUBE, WHICH IS ENLARGED. A LOWEND AND AN OBOE OR DOUBLE REED FORMED OF PINE IN TWO SECTIONS IS LASHED TOGETHER AND FORCED IN THE OUTER END."