FROM CARD: "CARVED WOODEN KILLER WHALE WITH LONG FLAT UPRIGHT BACK FIN. PAINTED BLACK. MADE TO WEAR ON TOP OF HEAD, WITH CORDS FOR TYING UNDER WEARER'S CHIN. 'FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OLD SHAKES [Sheiyksh], FORMER CHIEF OF THE NANYAAYI [Naanya.aayí].' ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 104, P. 418."

Per Anthropology Catalogue ledger book, this is a model made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes of Catalogue No. E60120. Original identified as Hoonah and Hutsnuwu Tlingit, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "WIDE, TRUNCATED CONE SHAPED, OF CEDAR BARK, IN TWILLED TWINED WEAVING, (MODIFIED). NATURAL COLOR, HEADBAND INSIDE AND COTTON CLOTH TIES. VERY FINE TIGHT WEAVING, IN FINE CONDITION. (11/1963)."Object is a woman's hat from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1168.Alan Zuboff, an elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This object is a working hat and would not be used as at.oow (clan property).

FLATTENED HUMAN HEAD AND NECK. NECK HAS HOLE.

Echini are presumably sea urchins. E88759 - 61 are on the list of objects purchased by Swan in Masset, a Haida town, in July 1883. The catalogue card lists them as Haida. However, the catalogue card also lists them as "Chilcat Inds." The source of this Chilkat attribution is unknown, though it may perhaps be a misreading of the original Anthropology catalogue ledger book, which identifies E88752, whose entry is on the same page and above the entries for these nets, as of Chilkat origin.

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=591 , retrieved 11-28-2011: Neck Ring Ring of cedar bark rope adorned with two carved crests, Wolf and Eagle. Today, potlatch song leaders wear bark rings.

FROM CARD: "A=SHIRT. B=LEGGINGS."

FROM CARD: "60141-42. 60,142: [From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND BUFFALO. IN SOME EXAMPLES, LITTLE WORK IS DONE UPON THE MATERIAL OTHER THAN CUTTING INTO SHAPE STEAMING, AND BENDING. AMONG THE TRIBES OF THE INTERIOR BASIN THIS IS SPECIALLY TRUE." (NOTE: THIS LABEL REFERRED TO SPECIMENS 8,489; 11,030; 11,228; 60,142)."

Blanket 89193 is similar in design to the one Illus. Fig. 564a, p. 374, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907.Blanket robe woven of wool from mountain sheep and cedar bark fiber. The shape is pentagonal, with the bottom edge diverging from the rectangular form by dropping lower in the center, forming a chevron shape. The upper edge is bound by whip stitching a thin leather strip (0.5-0.8 cm wide) with brown fur attached so it makes a fur border. The two sides are finished with 10 cm long cotton fringe sewn to the sides. The bottom has a fringe (warp) of 50 cm long of natural off-white wool, with cedar bark fiber twisted with the fringes. In addition to the fringes and fur, the woven material has been finely finished with a natural off-white wool border reinforced on the sides with additional strands. The design is in dyed wool in black, yellow, and turquoise, along with natural off-white. The design has a central panel and two side panels, separated only by a thin off-white line, the whole framed by a double border of yellow on the inside and blank on the outside with thin lines of off-white and black to separate the border colors and the border from the design. There is a 20 cm long piece of red binding tape attached at one end at the back of the shawl and a tab where a second one apparently was attached earlier.Per artists Delores Churchill and Evelyn Vanderhoop, 2015, the side fringes were added later to this blanket and are not traditional.Alan Zuboff, Linda Wynne, Shgen George, weaver, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The blanket is Tlingit made and features a diving whale design. The diving whale design is not clan-specific, and so weavers did not need permission to use it, which allowed for widespread use. The Tsimshian started doing these designs first, and a Klukwan leader got ahold of one of these items, and his wife took it apart to figure out how it was made. This object may have been an early design later widely adopted by the Tlingit. The fur on this object may be sea otter or beaver, but it may be too short for sea otter. The side fringe is made of twine and discoloration of the fringe may be due to storage.