From card: "Of soft deer skin, with cut fringe. Row of flannel fringe sewed on. Upper border of otter skin. Surface painted with designs. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64. Returned 2/15/66."Accession record 41512 identifies this object as "skin skirt with dew-claws." See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several Emmons accessions. It may contain information about # E221178? # E221178 may be the object referred to on a list at the end of that file as: "Shamans dance apron of caribou skin painted."

From card: "Nass and Skeena Rivers, B.C.. Represents an eagle beak."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=700, retrieved 3-31-2012: Mask, Tsimshian. Tsimshian individuals acquired supernatural powers, or helping spirits (naxnox), through a series of ritual initiations held by members of that spirit's society. The spirits, like this bird, were represented by masks. During the initiation ceremony, holders of the power “threw” it into the novices so that it became theirs as well. Masks were kept hidden away except at ceremonies.

Catalogue card lists as Hutsnuwu/Kootznahoo, but Anthropology catalogue ledger book does not list that people/locality for this artifact, only for 60111 and 60113.

FROM CARD: "BEAR'S JAW AND TUSKS."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 7 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Bear's jaw ... used to give the fine edge to carving knives after they had undergone sharpening on? the whetstone. The edge is drawn on the tusks."

FROM CARD: "PLAIN, NO DECORATION. FORM OF THE TRADITIONAL "COPPER". REF. DAWSON, "HAIDA INDIANS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISL.," CANADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PROVISIONAL REPORT 1878, FIG. 135 B."In a letter dated September 8, 1881 filed in Accession No. 11616, in the postscript to the letter McLean says "I send by this mail a copper shield made by a Hoochenoo [Hutsnuwu Tlingit] Indian from native copper, and said to antedate the Russian occupation of Alaska. This curiosity is sent with the compliments of Mr. Carl Spuhn Manager NW Trdg. Co. [Northwest Trading Company] S.E. Alaska." It is possible this refers to E60648 (or E67947)?