A wooden Head canoe-form bowl with rim inlaid with operculum shell. FROM CARD: "9244-54. NOS. 9244, 9250 ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIGS. 34, 32; P. 394. [Both identified as canoe dishes in the publication.] 9244, 9248, 9252, 9253, 9254: THESE 5 SPECIMENS WERE LENT TO RENWICK "BOXES AND BOWLS" EXHIBITION ON 11-7-73. RETURNED 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "CANOE-FORM BOWL. WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 176. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS. CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N87, P.151." LOANED TO NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, OCT. 20, 1972. RETURNED: 5-29-73. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988."

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK DYED RED ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 18, FIG. 67-9, P. 270." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "NECKLACE.---ROPE OF TWISTED CEDAR BARK, DYED RED, MADE INTO A COLLAR, WITH ENDS BOUND TOGETHER AND FRAYED OUT. USED IN DANCING BY SITKA INDIANS. LENGTH, 23 INS. DIAM. OF ROPE, 1 1/4 INS. FT. WRANGEL, ALASKA, 1875. 20,910. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD E20849: "HEADDRESSES.---MADE OF CEDAR BARK ROPE, STAINED RED WITH THE JUICE OF THE ALDER. WORN IN THE WINTER CEREMONIAL DANCES OF THE KWAKIUTL AND OTHER SOUTHERN COAST INDIANS. HOODSINOO INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN FAMILY), ADMIRALTY ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,849, 20,910. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THIS STYLE IS BORROWED BY THE NORTHERN INDIANS AND WORN BY THEM IN THEIR CEREMONIALS, BUT NOT WITH THE SAME SIGNIFICANCE AS IN THE SOUTH."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20849, 20850 and 20910 as original number 70, and lists as Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Admiralty Island, Alaska. List in accession file identifies no people or locality for original # 70. The old exhibit labels for E20910 have conflicting locality information, with one saying Admiralty Island, and the other Fort Wrangell. The catalogue card originally said Admiralty Island, but Fort Wrangell has been added later, presumably because of exhibit label? For now, locality in database has been listed as Admiralty Island. Note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a former number of 20910 for both 72701 and 72702 and says "Reentered to avoid confusion of nos." 72701 and 2 are listed as Fort Wrangell.

359E; ORNAMENT OF CARVED WOODEN ANIMAL HEAD TIED TO CIRCULAR BRANCH WITH HAIR ATTACHED; TLINGIT, CHILKAT--G.T. EMMONS, COLLECTOR.Information below on American Museum of Natural History records, etc. was provided by Allen Wardwell, 1988. This object has a number E359 written on it. This is an American Museum of Natural History number and indicates the object comes from George Thornton Emmons collection, #359, at the American Museum. According to Allen Wardwell, this object was collected by Emmons between 1884 and 1893 and acquired by the AMNH in 1893. Over the years, a number of objects have left the AMNH collection in various ways, and the AMNH has no records that the piece was lent or traded from the collection. This object does not seem to match any of the catalogued items listed as having been donated to the Smithsonian by the AMNH or by George Thornton Emmons. Emmons' catalogue entry for # 359 at the AMNH reads: "359 Wooden, ornamental portion of Doctor's dance headdress - "Take-cheany" from Kluck-qwan, "Chilkhart-qwan," the property of a Doctor, the carved wooden head, represents a land otter. Ornamentally painted in black and red."

It is assumed that this object is the one referred to on the list in the accession file as a "wooden stove pipe attachment", identified as belonging with/on top of one of the "large carved wooden helmet[s]" in the collection. Per Eric Hollinger, this is a column of wooden hat rings (potlatch rings), or potlatch cylinder, that belongs with sculpin crest hat E74339, based on XRF testing of the paint on this 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.