FROM CARD: "GRAY GRANITE, SMOOTH FINISH, SHALLOW GROOVE CUT AROUND EXTERIOR HORIZONTALLY."

From card: "Of red cedar bark in the checker weave, from Wrange [may be Wrangell?] the stickleen [probably Stickeen/Stikine?] tribe of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. A general carrying and storage basket, used at home and in canoe travel." Comments above in brackets are by F. Pickering, 5-20-2009.

From card: "Carved to represent head of a sculpin. Doctor's rattle. Purchased from "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop", Seattle, Wash. Attached data tag does not suggest Tlingit origin. Additional info. in Lab Acc. file."Note: as of 2010, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop tag is still present with the artifact. Handwritten on the tag is: "#1 Alaska Indian Doctors Rattle $4.50."

From card: "Globular central bowl, front carved into a birds head, from which extends below, and to the back 3 lines of dots probably meant to represent tail feathers but looking much like the octopus suckers on some other N.W.C. masks." Per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009, pipe is carved in the form of an octopus or "devil fish," rather than a bird.

FROM CARD: "BASKET. 1 GIFT TO ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INSTITUTE, FEB. 14, 1903. ONE-EXCHANGE-MR. G. D. E. SCHMELTZ LEIDEN MUSEUM, LEIDEN HOLLAND. MAY 1899."

FROM CARD: "18905-6. BOTH SPECIMENS BADLY DAMAGED. IDENTIFIED, REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. #18905 - PAINTED FRONT AND CARVED AND PAINTED CORNER POSTS."Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, 4-12-2012, this is an unusual model with wooden coppers on the corner posts and a set of figures that go with it, Tlingit in style. (The figures are Catalogue No. E18907-0).

From card: "Carving on slab of yellow cedar representing bear and frog toterus [sic, word probably should be "totems"]. Carved by Shock - ish."

Pipes E60200 - E60204, which do not have original numbers listed in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book, have been presumed to be from Hoonia/Hoonah by the person who typed the catalogue cards, based on the original artifact list in the accession file.

FROM CARD: "WOVEN FROM GOAT FLEECE WITH PAINTED (DYED) DESIGNS IN BLACK, YELLOW AND GREEN. TWO ROWS OF PUFFIN BEAK BEADS AT ENDS OF BUCKSKIN FRINGE BORDER. RARE AND VALUABLE SPECIMEN. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967 RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 290, P. 219." FROM CROSSROADS CATALOGUE: "A WRAPAROUND APRON AND DECORATED LEGGINGS WERE OFTEN WORN BY THE NOBILITY ALONG WITH A CHILKAT BLANKET ON CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS. THE WOVEN PIECES OF THIS SET (OF DANCE APRON AND LEGGINGS) WERE ORIGINALLY PART OF A SINGLE BLANKET DEPICTING A DIVING KILLER WHALE, WHICH WAS PROBABLY CUT UP AND DISTRIBUTED TO GUESTS DURING A GREAT MEMORIAL POTLATCH. THE WOVEN PIECES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED WITH TRADE BLANKET MATERIAL AND BORDERED WITH SKIN FRINGES. PUFFIN BEAKS ATTACHED TO THE FRINGES RATTLED TOGETHER WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF THE DANCER."" Leggings illus. Fig. G, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.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=694 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Apron This dance apron was cut from a full-sized robe that was woven out of dyed mountain goat wool and cedar bark. Puffin beaks and leather fringes were added for sound and motion during dance performances. The Chilkat-style design represents a diving Killer Whale, according to Tlingit advisers. The head, including eyes, nostrils, and mouth, forms the two lowest tiers of the design. The central spirit face is the whale's body, and its flukes and dorsal fin are represented by the double eyes and other elements at the top of the weaving.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E341202-0 Apron and E341202-1 Leggings are both on loan.