FROM CARD: "KEET-ROO-SEE-TEE-KA. MYTHOLOGICAL."

From card: "Twined, with decorative overlay."Basket was purchased by Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6156. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .A small label, presumably from Grace Nicholson, is glued inside rim of basket: "6156 Yakutat."

ACCORDING TO SWAN'S LIST (FROM ACCESSION FILE) THIS PIECE IS DESCRIBED AS "FIGURE OF A MAN RESTING HIS ELBOWS ON HIS KNEES" AND IS IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF A GROUP OF "SITKA CARVINGS". NOTE: (AUGUST, 1997) ACCORDING TO DR. PETER MACNAIR, ETHNOLOGIST, THE FIGURE IS "JENNA CASS" TYPE. (S. CRAWFORD, SEPT., 1997). ILLUS. FIG. 65, P. 88 IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS FIGURE REPRESENTING MAN, TLINGIT, ARTIST UNKNOWN, C. 1870.CATALOG NUMBER 13102 WAS ALSO ASSIGNED TO A HAIDA CANOE MODEL FROM SWAN'S COLLECTION BUT AS OF 1997 NO CANOE WITH THIS NUMBER COULD BE LOCATED.Note: accession record indicates 2 Haida canoe models were part of this accession. Swan indicates in the accession record that some of the other artifacts in the accession were packed in these canoe models for shipping, so they were not very small. One was not described further in the accession record. The second is only listed as "fancy painted." These were given catalogue #s 13102 and 13103. MNH2373 is a black and white photo of canoe model 13102. This canoe model is described on p. 934 of the Collins Boat Ms., and there is a notation there that it was in the Division of Mechanical Technology as of 1899, but a subsequent undated annotation indicates it was accidentally destroyed. 13103 is also described in the Collins Boat Ms. on p. 932. The manuscript has an annotation indicating it was withdrawn from the Division of Technology by Otis Mason in 1899 (implying that it went to the Division of Ethnology), but as of 2016, this canoe model has not been located during various inventories.

HAS CATALOG CARD. Card indicates that there were originally 12 paint brushes with this T number, a number of which were illustrated in Plate XLV-B, after p. 320, of Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. As of 2010, there are now 2 brushes only with this T number, ET714-0 and ET714-1 ( (some may now be part of ET11908?) Card indicates these are probably Tlingit, may be from S. E. Alaska? Handle of this brush is carved wood; black paint still on brush bristles. Illus. Plate XLV-B, Fig. 255, after p. 320 in Niblack, USNM Annual Report for 1888. Niblack identified carved handle as representing an eagle.

FROM CARD: "TWINED OPENWORK. CYLINDRICAL FORM PROBABLY OF SPRUCE ROOT ? *ORIGINAL TAG SAYS: "MOUTH OF SHEEP CREEK, BELOW Z (?) UNO" ** ORIGINAL TAG SAYS: "COLLECTED BY W. C. HODGKIN" ABOUT 1975 FOUND QUITE BROKEN AROUND BOTTOM WHICH WAS REPAIRED IN ANTH. CONS. LAB, AS WELL AS GENERAL TREATMENT TO PRESERVE THE ELASTICITY."Identified as soapberry spoon storage bag by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003Similar 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.

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

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (4).---SILVER BANDS, 1 1/4 TO 1 1/2 INCHES BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS, AND FITTED WITH HOOK AND EYE CLASPS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,530, 19,531, 19,532, 19,533. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. THE EXTERIORS ARE ENGRAVED, SUCCESSIVELY, WITH RUDE [SIC] NATIVE IMAGES OF THE FOUR TOTEMS OF THE THLINKET INDIANS, VIZ., THE WHALE THE RAVEN (YEHL), THE WOLF (KHAN UKH), AND THE EAGLE (CHETHL') THE LATTER BEING ACCOMPANIED BY A RUDE REPRESENTATION OF AN AMERICAN HALF-DOLLAR COIN. SITKA INDIANS."Linda Wynne and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this bracelet features two killer whales sharing one dorsal fin.