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.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".

Written on artifact itself: "Ice or seal hook used in boat, Taku Harbor, S.E. Alaska." Written by Dr. William Fitzhugh on barcode tag with artifact: "Must be Norton Sound/SW Alaskan Eskimo origin."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF AR., 1973, P. 164. LOAN: R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM, DEC. 31, 1964. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966." FROM CARD: "CARVED IN RELIEF WITH HUMAN FIGURE, SMALL ANIMALS AND ABSTRACT DESIGNS. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART., 1973, P. 164. LOANED, WHITNEY MUS. OF AMERICAN ART, SEPT. 10, 1971. RETURNED: 2-9-72. LOANED: NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCT. 20, 1972. RETURNED: 5-29-73. LOANED: RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "FROM PAGE 61, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECTS ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 44. CARVED BOWL HORN; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 8 3/4 (TSIMSHIAN?), FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 17, 1876. 20,613."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.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=522, retrieved 4-24-2012: Bowl, Tsimshian. A frog and naked man appear at one end of this high-end feast bowl, which was molded and carved from the horn of a mountain sheep. The face of a crest animal was rendered on the other end, along with a second frog. Wing designs extend along the sides of the vessel. Hunting wild sheep and goats in the high coastal mountains was a dangerous pursuit; hunters ascended steep slopes and glaciers in spiked snowshoes, using dogs to drive the animals into bow and arrow range. "This is a very well done bowl, but it is from Port Simpson, where Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit people were all living. We may never know exactly which tribe the carver came from. The Haida had to trade with our people to get weaving materials and the horns for making bowls and spoons." - David Boxley (Tsimshian), 2009

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

From card: "Shank of hard wood, blade of iron, lashing of split-spruce root. (Old)."In letter dated April 17, 1901 in accession file, Emmons identifies these objects as from Killisnoo. However, he also identifies Killisnoo as on Admiralty Island, but Killisnoo is on Killisnoo Island; it is Angoon which is on Admiralty Island. Because of this confusion, and because of the fact that Killisnoo and Angoon are only 2 miles apart, it is unclear whether these objects were collected at Killisnoo or Angoon.

FROM CARD: "BIRDS HEAD."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: "COPPER. 168381-A 2.2CM WIDE; SETTINGS NEAR CLASP ARE MISSING. 168381-B 2.4CM WIDE; SETTINGS NEAR CLASP ARE MISSING. INVENTORIED 1979."