FROM CARD: "2 IN POUCH."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Roll of native woven s[t]uff covered with windings of bark cord in two shades forming triangular figures. Pendant band of cords at the back."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=666, retrieved 3-31-2012: Neck Ring. Tsimshian celebrants danced in cedar-bark rings, imitating the dress and actions of beings who were described in the origin story of each secret society. Bark rings were hung outside on the houses where ceremonies were in progress, to warn away the uninitiated. This ring consists of several crossed layers of twisted bark cord wrapped around wool; the sash is made of twisted bark cords, each ending in a knot and tassel.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD, IN TWO SECTIONS, TIED TOGETHER AT THE EDGES AND PINNED AT THE HANDLE. DESIGN, A BIRD WITH OPEN WINGS. ONE ITS BREAST A CARVED MASK. ON THE BACK IS A HUMAN FIGURE IN RELIEF WITH A FROG ON HIS BREAST. EATING HIS TONGUE. THE TAIL OF THE BIRD REPRESENTS THE HEAD AND BEAK OF A BIRD. PAINTED RED, GREEN AND BLACK. USED IN THEIR RELIGIOUS DANCES."

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

FROM CARD: "A TYPICAL BLANKET OF THE GROUP WITH THE BASIC COLOR OF DARK BROWN INTO WHICH IS WOVEN THE MYTHOLOGICAL DISSECTED ANIMAL DESIGNS IN LIGHT BLUE-GREEN, AND YELLOW AND NATURAL WHITE. WIDE BORDER OF DARK GREEN; 15" WHITE FRINGE ON BOTTOM. THIS SPECIMEN PURCHASED IN JUNEAU ALASKA BY MRS. CROSS IN 1887 OR 1897."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=359 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: TLINGIT*. REMARKS: *ORIGINAL SWAN TAG ON ARTIFACT STATES: "NO. 55 1 BUCKSKIN POUCH EMBROIDERED WITH SILK, STIKINE INDIANS, FORT WRANGEL, ALASKA"."Embroidered with floral design.