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: "TLINKIT USE THEM AS GONGS [sic]. PAINTED WITH DEVICES PREDOMINANTLY BLACK, SOME RED, AND A LITTLE GREEN. SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATED (FIG.3) AND MENTIONED IN TEXT (P.344) OF BOAS SOCIAL ORG. AND SECRET SOC. OF KWAKIUTL. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 3; P. 343." Caption for figure 3 in Boas states: "The painting on this plate represents the hawk. The upper face shows the hawk's head, and the lower face its body. The three lines on each side of the body are probably the talons."Anthropology catalogue ledger book and list in accession file (this object is # 30) identify this object as acquired in Sitka. It is included on list in accession file of objects "purchased of [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, Sitka."

As of 2009, E67979 consists of a dagger and two sheaths, and E67980, E67981, E67983, and E67984 consist of 1 dagger, each, though originally catalogued as including sheaths. It is possible that one of the sheaths currently numbered E67979 may actually belong with the dagger E67980, E67981, E67983 or E67984?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.

Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1159.

FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH TRADITIONAL SCROLL DEISGN WITH CLASP. INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (3).---SILVER BANDS, 3/4 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; HOOK-AND-EYE CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATER DIAMS., 2 1/4 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 1 7/8 TO 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,536, 19,537, 19,538. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE NOT PAINTED. DESIGN: AN EAGLE'S BODY, HEAD AND NECK. THE TAIL A GROTESQUE HUMAN MASK."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?