FROM CARD: "BONE."This object is # 44 on list in accession file.

Note: E6560 and E306355 were mixed together in NHB storage. It is unclear if all parts have been sorted out and given their correct numbers. Note also that E6560 is supposed to be a trawl line with small bentwood hooks, but there is also a large halibut hook with that number, which may be incorrect?From card: "Two strand cord or small rope for all uses."

FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S. "GOAT", HANDLED."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 11 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Woman's awl, ornamentally cut handle of mountain goat and steel pricker."Listed on page 48 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: "67904 LOANED TO C-H. 8/19/81. RETURNED TO NHB 2/15/82." SEE USNM AR 1895, P. 965 - 6, WHERE THIS ARTIFACT IS DESCRIBED: "BOW OR HANDLE. AN ALMOST SQUARE, SLIGHTLY CURVED SPECIMEN, WITH ENGRAVINGS ON ALL SIDES EXCEPTING THE UNDER OR CONCAVE ONE. THE TOP OR CONVEX SURFACE BEARS, AMONG OTHER OBJECTS, A LARGE UMIAK, THE FOUR OCCUPANTS OF WHICH ARE INDICATED BY THE HEADS, ARMS, AND PADDLES ONLY, THE VERTICAL BODY LINE BEING PURPOSELY OMITTED OR FORGOTTEN. SOME CONVENTIONAL TREES ARE USED AS ORNAMENTAL MARKINGS. THE SIDES BEAR SEAL HUNTS,... . EACH SIDE IS ORNAMENTED BY TWO DEEPLY INCISED GROOVES, ONE AT EITHER EDGE OF THE FACES OF THE BOW, AND THE ENGRAVINGS ARE DEEPLY AND FORCIBLY MADE, ALL BEING FILLED IN WITH BLACK. THOUGH MARKED AS FROM 'CHILKAT', THE SPECIMEN HAS THE CHARACTERISTIC APPEARANCE OF THE WORK DONE BY THE NATIVES OF NORTON SOUND."

FROM CARD: "WOOD; PAINTED BLACK AND RED."

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "MANUFACTURED BY ANTHRO LAB."Ledger book says that the mortar is Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) and from Alaska (an apparent mismatch), but the original mortar, catalog number 220185, has been re-identified as possibly Tlingit and/or from Skeena River, BC. See catalog number 220185.

From card: "This is one of the two unpainted ones. Carved. Refer to: 231036 [card] for collecting data."

FROM CARD: "CUT IN TWO. HOUSE FRONT. (TSIMSIAN) PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS. 5 MAY 1966: THIS SPECIMEN MISSING FROM COLLECTION. GEP. 9 MAY 1966: SPECIMEN RELOCATED. GEP."