FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP OF PINE, THE JOINT SCARFED AND NAILED. ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE OR THIN SKIN. WHEN GREEN IT IS STRETCHED ACROSS AND OVER THE HOOP AND FASTENED TO BACK EDGE WITH WOODEN PIN, EXCEPT IN THREE PLACES WHERE THE SKIN WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH IT IS PEGGED ON OUTSIDE OF HOOP. TWO PAIRS OF HOLES OF THE PAIRS ABOUT 9 INCHES APART ARE MADE THROUGH HOOP AND SKIN 1-1/4 INCHES FROM BACK EDGE AND TWO RAWHIDE THONGS ARE STRETCHED ACROSS BACK OF HOOP SO AS TO CROSS AT THE MIDDLE. A ROPE OF HEMP IS WOUND LENGTHWISE OF THE CROSSING TO FORM A HANDLE."Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This drum is a Tlingit design and is made with bentwood and deer hide.

From card: Collector U.S. Fish Commission, USS Steamer Albatross. Collected 1892. "Scale model, 1" to the foot. Lt. [G.] T. Emmons USN says this was used for the catching of sea otter, much used for their furs. A keelless open dugout canoe with a flat ridge on the bottom of the keel, one end rises slightly and there is strong sheer at the bow. Returned to the Division of Ethnology 1960. [Returned from the Division of Engineering. Old Engineering # 76276.] One third of the top of the stern end was broken away when examined in Nov. 1963 - R. Elder. Collins Ms. p. 1223."Note, citation on card to the entry on this canoe model in the Collins Ms. is incorrect. This canoe model is described on p. 902 of the Collins Ms., not p. 1223. The text in the remarks on the card is mostly from the Collins Ms., and in that Ms. it notes that G. T. (i.e. George Thornton) Emmons is the one saying this canoe model is the type of the Yakutat Tlingit, of Cook's Inlet (a.k.a. Cook Inlet), Alaska. It is unclear from the entry if Emmons was indicating that this was actually collected at Cook Inlet, or merely that it is a canoe model typical of the Yakutat Tlingit of that area. Accession file identifies the canoe model only as from Southwest Alaska.

From card: "Hammered from coins. Chased in modern design (fish)." Per Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, these are made from silver half dollar coins. She also indicates that E153360A and B are almost identical and are decorated with dogfish with the face at the center and the body split to either side; E153360C is decorated with a design of two salmon with their heads meeting at the center and the bodies to the sides. E153360B is illus. Fig. 18, p. 47 and E153360C is illus. Fig. 17, p. 47, and all 3 are also described p. 72 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. See: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah. 1885. Alaska. Its southern coast and the Sitkan Archipelago. Boston Mass: D. Lothrop & Co. (a collection of the travel letters Scidmore wrote for newspapers during her Alaska trips of 1883 and1884). On pp. 128-9 of this publication, Scidmore describes a Hoonah silversmith at work. Bunn-Marcuse quotes a section on p. 47 of Precious Metals.

FROM CARD: "13096-101. #13099 LOANED TO IAIA SANTA FE., NM 1 APRIL 1966. LOAN RETURNED NOV 28 1966."Carved wooden figure of a man sitting on a box. Rattles are inside the box. The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man on box", and thus possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

RABBIT WITH FISH ON BACK CARVED ON END.

From card: "White stone. Crouching figure. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1972, p. 277." Identified in Far North catalogue as the bound figure of a witch, and attributed as Tlingit by C. Douglas Lewis.

Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1158.