FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 10 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Woman's work bag of caribou skin ... containing split quill for ornamental work on clothing, and caribou sinew used in sewing skin clothing, moccasins."

Listed on page 45 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: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES AND EACH HALF EXCAVATED FROM SMALL END TO WITHIN HALF AN INCH OF LARGE END. THE HALVES ARE BOUND TOGETHER WITH LEATHER THONGS, AT SMALL END AND AT MIDDLE; BLOWING IN SMALL END CAUSES THE LARGE END BELOW MIDDLE LASHING TO VIBRATE AND ALLOWS THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, THUS CAUSING A SOUND. PL. 43, NOS. 9 & 10; P. 48,? (HOUGH, HIST. OF INVENTIONS)."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1893; Pl. 7 & 8; p. 636." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Body Armor - Breast protector, made of slats and rods of wood woven together by means of fine cord; shield shape; lower part truncated; principal part forms a continuous line under the arms and across the breast and back. The front and back of yoke are made of separate short pieces of wood, and sewed on by means of a strip or rawhide 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide. The front and back parts are woven separate and connected by leather strings, at the sides and under the arms. Thlinkit Inidans. Sitka, Alaska, 1883. Collected by J. J. McLean."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=171, retrieved 3-31-2012: Slat armor.

This hat is of the style often called a shaman's hat, per Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003