FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XX, FIGS. 46, P. 185." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL MASK.---MADE OF WOOD; OUTLINES IN RED AND BLACK PAINT. BITS OF BUFFALO PELT SERVE AS EYEBROWS. LABRET SET IN LOWER LIP. WORN IN DANCES. LENGTH, 10 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 9 1/2 INCHES. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (TSIMSHIAN STOCK), FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 20,581. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THE CUSTOM OF WEARING A LABRET IN A SLIT CUT IN THE LOWER LIP PREVAILS AMONG THE WOMEN OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. IT IS A TOKEN OF RANK AND SOCIAL POSITION. THE LABRETS ARE GENERALLY MADE OF WOOD, IVORY, OR BONE, AND VARY IN SIZE FROM FOUR INCHES LONG BY THREE INCHES BROAD DOWN TO THE PROPORTIONS OF A SMALL SLEEVE BUTTON. THE CUSTOM IS FAST DYING OUT."

From card: "Like 274419. A sea otter canoe. Fred. de Laguna, 1963".

From Card: "Masts and poles (5) transferred back to Division of Ethnology from the Division of Engineering, Jan 25, 1934 [Canoe model is out on] Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia [Museo Nacional de las Culturas, Mexico City], May 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT 1884, PL. VII, FIG. 11, P. 306. ALSO USNM AR 1888; FIG. 189, P. 316; AND REPT, 1902; FIG. 137; P. 409. & PL. 71; P. 548."

FROM CARD: "ANIMAL-FORM BOWL. LOANED RENWICK GA. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76."FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 47, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 21.ANIMAL-FORM BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 13 1/2 (TLINGIT), SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED SEPTEMBER 28, 1875."

Shgen George, weaver, Florence Sheakley, elder, and Shirley Kendall, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket features a diving whale design, and once had fur, such as mink or sea otter, along the top. The eyebrows look like Tsimshian design eyebrows because they are thin and pointed at the top.Lines of dark thread at the bottom right and left corners of the blanket along the edge's braiding represents the weaver's signature. Information recieved by Chilkoot Indian Association visit 8/29/2024.

FROM CARD: "16388-92. 16391 ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1B, PG. 2."Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 606, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this as from Sitka, Alaska. Sitka was mistranscribed as Sitlsa on typed catalogue card.