FROM CARD: "WORN AS A FALSE FACE. HAS MOVABLE EYES AND MANDIBLE; MOUTH PIECE OF TIN; COPPER STRIP NAILED OVER LEFT BROW. THIS MASK IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM THE NAIS [NASS] RIVER GROUP OF THE TSINSHIM [TSIMSHIAN]. COLLECTOR'S TAG: #108 TLINGIT INDIAN - TAKU TRIBAL MARK. CONQUERED FROM NUMBER OF FLATHEADS OF NASH [NASS] R., B.C. PRICE $35.00 (SUGGESTED ORIGIN TSIMSIAN)."

Originally catalogued as Tsimshian, but accession record identifies this object as "Haidah", i.e. Haida. The entry reads: "1 Haidah cane. Hand holding fish." E20905 is the only cane catalogued in this accession.

FROM CARD FOR E60135: "[From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "HORN SPOONS. BOWLS, MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE HANDLES ARE MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, IN CANADA, AND THROUGHOUT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE HORN OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP IS USED IN MAKING DOMESTIC UTENSILS. THE HORN OF THE GOAT ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO THE CARVER'S ART, AND BY THE TLINGIT INDIANS IS CARVED AND ENGRAVED TO REPRESENT TOTEMIC IDEAS." (NOTE: THIS LABEL APPLIES TO 60,135-60,141; 10,389)."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Soft leather, beaded floral design." Drawing of moccasin showing beadwork design is on reverse of the card, with the notation "Blue, green, red + black beads."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=687 , retrieved 2-12-2022: Moccasins, Tlingit. These moccasins were sewn from soft-tanned deer or caribou hide and beaded with striking leaf, flower, berry, and nut or catkin designs. The designs may be fanciful, rather than representing real plants. People of the southern Yukon region, including the Inland Tlingit, constructed moccasins of this type, with T-shaped heal seams and blunt toes. This pair was collected on the coast at Sitka, reflecting trade between coast and interior groups.

FROM CARD: "WHOLE AND BROKEN LABRETS OF SERPENTINE IN VARIOUS PATTERN-ONE WHOLE, THE OTHERS BROKEN."

From card: :"Cedar bark. Part of a bride's outfit." DR. ANDREA LAFORET, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN, OTTAWA, NOTED 1-7-85: "THOUGH TLINGIT IS WRITTEN ON OBJECT THIS MAY BE A TSIMSHIAN HOOD WORN BY A PUBESCENT GIRL. TWO COMPARABLE PIECES EXIST; ONE IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN, OTTAWA, THE OTHER IN THE FIELD MUSEUM, CHICAGO.""

FROM CARD: "EX. CANTERBURY MUS, JUNE 1900. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; FIGS. 138-9; P. 410. NEG. #86-6978 & 86-6979."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.Linda Wynne, Ruth Demmert, elder, and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The elders agreed that the beadwork on this object is loom woven, and commented that the bead design is similar to bead designs on octopus bags (e.g. E89196-0; E021581-0). There is a button to close the bag.

FROM CARD: "75CTS." FROM ACCESSION RECORD: :"'YALCH' OR INDIAN DEVIL. THIS REPRESENTS A SHAMAN OR DOCTOR DRESSED FOR A MASQUERADE TO REPRESENT AN EVIL SPIRIT."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.Listed on page 43 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".