FROM CARD: "THE BODY REPRESENTS A RAVEN, ITS BREAST A SPARROW HAWK. ON ITS BACK IS A PROSTRATE WOOD DEMON, HIS TONGUE PLUCKED BY A FROG, THAT IS HELD IN THE BEAK OF A KING FISHER. SEE. U.S.M. REPORT 1888, P. 324, ILL. PL. LIV, NO. 290."

FROM CARD: "60152-53. 60153 EXCHANGED (2). #60153 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIG. 228(?); P. 318."

FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. [Dagger] ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 311, P.232. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DOUBLE-BLADED DAGGER AND SHEATHS.--BLADES MADE OF STEEL. THE HANDLE, WHICH IS MOUNTED WITH COPPER AND WRAPPED IN LEATHER, IS SET BETWEEN THE TWO BLADES. THE BLADE ABOVE THE HANDLE IS MUCH SHORTER THAN THE ONE BELOW. ATTACHED TO THE HANDLE IS A LEATHER STRIP WITH A HOLE CUT NEAR THE END TO LET IN THE MIDDLE FINGER. THE STRIP IS THEN TWISTED ABOUT THE WRIST TO SECURE THE WEAPON FIRMLY IN THE HAND SO THAT THE WARRIOR NEVER PARTS WITH HIS WEAPON UNTIL DEATH. SHEATHS FOR BOTH BLADES MADE OF LEATHER. LENGTH OF UPPER BLADE, 4 3/4 INCHES; LENGTH OF LOWER BLADE, 12 3/4 INCHES. INDIANS OF ALASKA. 9,288. COLLECTED BY DR. A. H. HOFF, U. S. A."2-part sheath.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. War knife and sheath (2 parts) both on loan. See E9288-1 for knife/dagger.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on dagger and sheath http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=506 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Dagger, Tlingit Tlingit warriors possessed iron-bladed knives long before Western contact, crafted from metal found on Asian ships that drifted across the Pacific. Sophisticated indigenous iron-working techniques produced honed and tempered blades, often with ground-on flutes. The double-ended war dagger was worn around the neck in a leather sheath and used in hand-to-hand combat. George Ramos said that a warrior tied his knife to his wrist before going into battle so that it would not be lost.

FROM CARD: "UPPER HALF OF FACE, WITH CENTRAL RIDGE, PAINTED BLUE; ROUND EYES, BLACK; CLOSED MOUTH RED. LEATHER TIES IN BACK."

FROM CARD: "ON LOAN TO CITY OF BUENOS AIRES-MARCH 25, 1954-LOAN WAS RETURNED 1955.

FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE. FIG. 64 P. 61. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads figure caption identifies pipe as depicting a sea otter floating on its back.

1 arrow from this set is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "[Bow] 75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabascan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75454 as Tlingit type; narrow.] An arrow, # 75454 was lent to the Crossroads of Continents exhibit, Sept., 1988, as # 16407 (by mistake). Hence the object illustrated in the Crossroads catalog as # 16407 [Fig. 76 on p. 73] is actually # 75454. The mistake was discovered when the loan returned Jan. 21, 1993. (S. Crawford, 2-23-93)." Identified in Crossroads catalogue caption as "Harpoon arrow for sea otters."One arrow appears in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell. The entry on this arrow in the website http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=616 , retrieved 12-30-2011, is the source of the information below: Sea otter arrow, Tlingit, Yakutat, Alaska. Fleets of canoes cruised the coast to find sea otters, encircling one when it was found. Hunters pierced it with the barbed tips of harpoon-arrows, which then dislodged from the shafts, leaving them to trail behind on sinew cords. Otters were depleted in most of southeast Alaska by 1825, but hunting continued at Lituya Bay, Yakutat, and Icy Bay until the early twentieth century. This arrow has a willow shaft and barbed bone tip. Length 123 cm..

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *CHILKAT-SITKA ?" REMARKS *9/30/66: THIS SPECIMEN DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL MCLEAN INVENTORY (NOV. 9, 1881) THAT PROVIDES SPECIFIC PROVENIENCE FOR EACH ITEM. GEP."Note: catalogue card lists this object as "small, not broken when rec'd." However, Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies it as "small, and broken when rec'd."