Florence Sheakley and Ruth Demmert, both beaders and elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design of this object was copied from bakestry and uses large, size 10 beads.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888, PL. VI - FIG. 6, P. 260. HEAVY FLAT COPPER BRACELET, INLAID ON THE UPPER SURFACE WITH PIECES OF ABALONE SHELL. 5/1964 ON PIECE OF SHELL MISSING FROM ONE OF THE PAIR. " FROM LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH THE CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF COPPER AND INLAID WITH SHELL. WIDTH, 5/8 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), FORT WRANGELL, ALASKA. 19,529. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

From card: "Fine weave in natural color with overlaid panel designs in berry stain representing human faces."

CATALOG CARD SAYS SENT AS A GIFT TO CHARLESTON MUSEUM, CHARLESTON, S.C., NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEP 1989.

FROM CARD: "IMITATED IN STRAW PLAIT (2)." Old USNM tag with artifact identifies as "Wine glass imitated in straw [sic] plait."

FROM CARD: "THOUGH THIS WAS COLLECTED, PRESUMABLY BOUGHT, IN THE TERRITORY OF THE TLINKIT PEOPLE DR. HOFF THOUGHT THAT IT WAS OF CHUKCHEE ORIGIN. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1893; PL. 21, FIG. 1; P. 644. REF. TO U.S.N. MUS. REP. 1893. P. 643, PL. 21."Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The elders commented that they had never seen Tlingit armor like this before, and this may actually be a more decorative object. The buttons on this object were commercially made and the coins on this object were sewn on with either sinew, braided sinew, or twine. Florence commented that this object looks like it was made from mooseskin.