The dye is purple.

The rock is pumice.

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.

FROM CARD: "LEDGER BOOK CALLS THIS "CARVED STATUE (SHAMAN'S GUARD)" AND ALSO COMMENTS "OLD. ONE OF THE TWO CORNER POSTS." THIS REPLACEMENT CATALOGUE CARD MADE 4/14/1989 FROM LEDGER BOOK AND INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SUE ROWLEY [who identifies object as a house post].-F. PICKERING."Catalogue card lists a photo negative number of MNH2331 for this object, but that is an error; MNH2331 is a photo of a different object.

FROM CARD: "MADE OF POROUS STONE AND SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN USED IN POUNDING CEDAR BARK."

From card: "Leather neckpiece, bone ornaments."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From 2008 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report by Michele Austin-Dennehy: The shaman's necklace has a stiff leather covered ring with hanging pendants of bone. The neckring is a large oval stiff ring, round in section, possibly of wood covered with an inner wrapping of fabric and an outer cover of reddish tanned leather stitched with sinew. The leather is pieced to the ring with very visible overcast stitching of the sinew thread. There are three flat carved and incised pendants and twenty-two long finger like pendants are attached to the ring with sinew cordage. The largest pendant is attached just below the ring and hangs horizontally. It is attached to the neckring through a small perforation on the upper back of the carving. Two smaller rectangular pendants flank the central one. The top and bottom of each pendant has a small perforation for attachment to the neckring. The twenty two narrow tapering finger like pendants hang from sinew and replacement thread through perforations at the top of each pendant. The thread is sewn into the cloth and leather of the neckring. Some of the pendants taper to a point, others are blunt. Some curve along their length.