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FROM CARD: "SKIN."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 8 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Hand protector of seal skin ... worn on the knuckles of the hand using the knife to protect the knuckles."
Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.Per Eric Hollinger, a column of wooden hat rings (potlatch rings), or potlatch cylinder, # E74441 belongs with sculpin crest hat E74339, based on XRF testing of the paint on that object, and comparing/matching it to flecks of the same type of paint on E74339, as well as comparing the size of the two pieces for fit.
Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit object may originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.
FROM CARD: "FOR CONTENTS OF THIS BOX SEE #45976-9."
OVAL STONE PAINT MORTAR; ANIMAL FORM. REMNANTS OF BLUE GREEN PAINT IN MORTAR. Loan Museo Nacional de Antroplogia 5/18/64. Loan returned 2012.
FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."