The object name for catalog numbers e20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (e20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.

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

FROM CARD: "6/13/67 LOANED TO NAT'L ARCHIVES. RETURNED 8/5/68. REFER: COLLINS' MS. P. 900."Note: E63556 and 63557 were originally identified on their catalogue card as "Oomiak" paddles. However 63557 is actually a canoe model. It is a bit unclear in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book (from which the catalogue card is derived) whether 63556 and 7 were listed there as oomiaks (i.e. boats or more likely boat models), or as oomiak or boat paddles, like 63553-5.

FROM CARD: "OF SKIN. CONTAINING PAINT."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 27 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as "Small skin case containing native mineral? paint ... used to color the face on ceremonial occasions, applied by means of stencils."

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Carved & painted mask, with squid coronet. Carved from the solid. Unpainted except for green on facial features and crest. Wood used, presumably cedar or spruce. Tufts of hair pegged into crest symbolizing an octopus extending over crown from ear to ear. Cut sections of furred skin pegged and glued to upper lip and chin to represent moustaches and beard, also above eyes representing eyebrows (all now gone)."Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This object features an octopus design, a symbol belonging to a group in Sitka. It has eyes made of copper.

FROM CARD: "REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER, AUGUST, 1983. HAT OF WOOD PAINTED DARK BLUE W/4 BROAD BANDS OF GRAY. HEAD FORMS SHAPE OF ANIMAL W/SNOUT, FANGS. COPPER STRIPS ON LIPS, NOSTRILS. LARGE, METAL COVERED EYES (METAL MISSING FROM ONE EYE.)" Hat also has a column of blue painted cylindrical basketry hat rings (sometimes called potlatch rings) stored with it, which was at one time attached to top of hat.Object has been stored withTsimshian, based on Fort Simpson collection location. Note however that Bella Bella is written inside the hat.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This is made of spruce root, completely woven. Each of these rings represent how many times the person has potlatched. It may be of Tsimshian or Tlingit origin and it appears that it could be a sea creature.

From card: ""Used by the Indian doctor; representing a sea otter." This information was on the original tag, of the: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, Wash. where the item was purchased. Additional info. in Lab Acc. file. Loan: The Halcyon Foundation 4/17/64. Loan Returned 12/19/67."Note: as of 2010, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop tag is no longer present with the artifact.

FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL. SAYERS. ILLUS. FIG.115, P.109 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PEN. PRESS, 1989. 1. EX. LEIDEN MUS. MAY /99. EX. GLEN IS. MUS., 11/95. EXCHANGE FOR MODEL COSTUMES KIOTO GIRLS' HIGHER NORMAL SCHOOL KIOTO, JAPAN APRIL 12, 1905. EXCHANGE FOR AWARD-MISS MARY H. CORBETT U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 20, 1906. EXCHANGE: MRS. J. G. SAYERS 110 MARYLAND AVENUE 4/10/1897. WASHINGTON, D.C."