From Card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1893, pl 22, p 644... fig 1."Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.Shirley Kendall, Virginia Oliver, and Alan Zuboff made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This robe is made of moose-hide, winter moose in particular according to Alan, and isn't smoked. This object is only top-stitched, not stitched all the way through. Virginia noted the presence of porcupine quills and commented that she didn't know Tlingits had fringed garments such as this. Alan commented that the wood with the object looks like something that would be on armor.

FROM CARD: "60145-48. 60146 SPOON IN SHAPE OF KILLER-WHALE."Listed on page 42 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".

From card: "Carved from single cedar log by Chilkat Indians at the Seattle, Washington Fair in 1970. Includes three figures; top - raven or eagle, center - wolf, and bottom - the bear. Carving goes around three fourths of circumference and is painted in red, black and light blue. Partially hollowed out in back. Carved under the direction of Carl Heinmiller [founder of Alaska Indian Arts, Inc.]." According to the accession history: the totem pole "was commissioned by Western Airlines for the Alaska Exhibit at Seattle, Washington, 1969-1970. Carved by Chilkat Indians at Fort Chilkoot [a.k.a. Port Chilkoot, or Fort William H. Seward], Haines, Alaska, under the direction of Carl Heinmiller, owner of the Fort."Florence Sheakley, Linda Wynne, Alan Zuboff, and Shirley Kendall made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Edwin Caskill, Leo Jacobs, Tommy Jimmy, and Charlie Jimmy carved this totem pole. Leigh Heinmiller in Haines may have photos of the totem pole at the Seattle Exposition. This totem pole features an Eagle at the top, Wolf in the middle, and a Bear at the bottom with a tana (copper shield), all from Kaagwantaan clan. Florence commented that it would take a year to carve this object and that totem poles are read from bottom to top. Alan commented that based on the adze marks three people worked on this object, instead of one or two, potentially as a teaching tool for the whole community. The totem pole is not hollowed out, suggesting it was made in a hurry.

“4 pr. salad spoons and forks carved in wood by Koloshian Indians.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of 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.

FROM CARD: "PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH BEARS TEETH."