Cylindrical. False embroidery. "Tlingit" is written on the bottom.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Cut from the solid, stylistically carved, and provided on reverse with one-quarter deep cut vertical grooves at one inch intervals, permitting bending to almost complete oval. Reverse also excavated for nose conformity and slotted at eye level for vision. Perforated for breathing just below nose excavation and for mouth support (basketry pad in mouth. Carved fluting at top.) See: "Primitive American Armor", by Walter Hough, Report, U.S.N.M., 1893, pp. 625-651. Illus: The Spirit Sings catalogue, Glenbow-Alberta Inst., 1987, #N105, p. 156. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 13 top right, pg. 281. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. XIV, fig. 50, p. 270. Loan Glenbow Nov 13, 1987, loan returned Nov 25 1988. Black and white negative numbers: 43230C (front); 43230D (top), 43230E (right side)."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=610 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Armor collar This wooden collar fit beneath a warrior's helmet to cover and protect his face and neck. Notches at the top allowed him to see out, and a small round hole in the center was provided for breathing. Inside the collar is a spruce root loop that he gripped in his teeth. To make this collar a craftsman first shaped a piece of hard spruce burl into a plank, then scored it with parallel grooves and bent it in a circle. Crest designs are carved on the front.

WOLF SHAPED FELT APPLIQUE PIN IN RED AND BLACK. WHITE BUTTON EYE.

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

FROM CARD: "CARVED. WORN BY MEDICINE MAN."This object is #33 in the list in the accession file. The list identifies it as "Ornamentally carved bones (2) worn around the neck of a Doctor as charms when practicing about the sick." The heading above this listing for #33 says: "These three pieces [which is presumed to apply to #33, 34, and 35]were brought by the Chilkaht Indian traders + packers from the Gunannao? [word hard to read] people who live about the headwaters of the Yukon River." The museum cataloguer has interpreted Gunannao to be Gonaho, i.e. Gunahoo/Gunaaxoo or the Dry Bay Tlingit, and has listed that designation for E168369 - E168373. It may be instead that this is a version of the word Gunana, i.e. Athabaskan (including Tutchone, Tagish ...), as the Chilkat traded with them. The Yukon River location seems to support this, as that would apply to the Athabaskans, not the Gunaaxoo Tlingit. (See p. 57 in Emmons, George Thornton, and Frederica De Laguna. 1991. The Tlingit Indians. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 70. Seattle: University of Washington Press.)

FROM CARD: "REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME SUGGESTS THAT THIS IS THE CORRECT SPECIMEN FOR THIS CAT.#. OLD PHOTOS OF THE PHILA. EXPO. OF 1876 [Centennial Exposition] SHOW THIS HOUSE MODEL W/ENTRANCE POLE AND CEDAR BARK ROOF ON DISPLAY. TYPOLOGICALLY THIS HOUSE SEEMS MORE HAIDA LIKE AND ESPECIALLY WHEN CONSIDERING THE ENTRANCE POLE. INDIVIDUAL PARTS LETTERED A-F. 6/11/69 GP." PHOTO NEG. #6251 IS PHOTO OF TOTEM POLE MODEL ONLY. ON BACK OF TOTEM POLE MODEL/HOUSE FRONTAL POLE IS COLLECTOR'S PENCILLED DESCRIPTION WHICH APPEARS TO SAY: "LOWER FIGURE WASKO WOLF WITH YOUNG WOLF IN ITS MOUTH. 4 HUMAN FIGURES DOCTOR'S GUARDIAN IMAGES. UPPER FIGURE HOORTS - BEAR AND SUMMATION IS THE KOOT OR FISH EAGLE" - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, University of Washington, 4-12-2012, the house model is probably Tsimshian, based on the painting. In 2018, Robin Wright added: The model house does indeed look to be Tsimshian in style. But now that I'm looking closely at the pole that is associated with this number, the pole does not look Tsimshian, and in fact looks to be another version of the Haida flood pole. It is based on one of the 3 Haida flood poles, It depicts the story of the flood with a stack of hat rings. Raven rescued the village during a flood by pulling up on the chief's hat rings making it grow tall enough for the people to climb up out of the flood waters.A photo of what appears to be this house model on display at the Smithsonian circa 1879 (photo may actually date more specifically to 1882 - early 1885) is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID 2962 or MNH-2962, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 4, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8263 . House model is on back left of photo in front of house front.This house model is visible (on right side on top of cabinet) on display in a photograph taken at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Interior view, Department of the Interior exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring archeological and anthropological artifacts, prepared by Bureau of Indian Affairs and Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 64, Folder 01, Image No. SIA_000095_B64_F01_029. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_400427 .

FROM CARD: "FAMILY CREST OR TOTEM ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 19, FIG. 74, P. 272." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL VESTMENT.---MADE OF BLUE CLOTH. THE DESIGN REPRESENTS THE HALIBUT, WORKED ON IN RED CLOTH, EDGED WITH BEAD AND BUTTON TRIMMINGS. IT IS WORN PENDANT DOWN THE BACK. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), PORT SIMPSON, B. C. 20,679. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. WHILE THIS IS A MODERN GARMENT, IT SHOWS THE ARTISTIC SKILL OF THESE INDIANS IN WORKING UP EVERY ARTICLE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY INTO A TOTEMIC DESIGN."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=529, retrieved 4-24-2012: Button robe. In the traditional history "Explanation of the Beaver Hat," a group of Eagles flees the Copper River region after a war. During their voyage south, three young people are swallowed by a giant halibut. When the monster is killed and cut open, the bodies are found inside, as shown on this button robe design. One of the surviving men kills a beaver that has copper eyes, claws, ears, and teeth, which is why Beaver and Halibut both came to be crests of the Eagles and are often displayed on their regalia. This design is made of red trade cloth on blue wool, with white beads and shell buttons. "The Eagle clan came from Alaska down to British Columbia, and one of their canoes was upended by a monster halibut. This design shows the halibut and the people that it took." - David Boxley (Tsimshian), 2009