Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 608, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

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."

FROM CARD: "APRIL 20, 1901 - ONE SPECIMEN SENT LT. G. EMMONS, PRINCETON, N.J., AS EXCHANGE. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; PL. 37; P. 548."

FROM CARD: "BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely # 22 on the list.Listed on page 47 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 (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "LOAN LOWIE MUSEUM 12/31/1964, LOAN RETURNED FEB 15, 1966. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987, LOAN RETURNED NOV 25, 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N16, P. 136." Illus. Fig. 8, p. 28, and Fig. H, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. There is a photo of this object on display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Negative No. 16465. See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_010 .Emmons' handwritten list in accession file describes this object in this way: "No. 9. "Kate" - A Chilkat blanket waist robe which was found in the possession of an old shaman of the "Tahltan" people living at Tahltan 100 miles up the Stickheen [Stikine] River from its mouth. It was originally made at Chilkat (the village of Kluckwan) [a.k.a. Klukwan] and was carried in trade to Wrangel [Wrangell] + traded up the river. The design represents a beaver sitting up [,] it is both realistic and conventional, the leather fringe is hung with the upper + lower bills of the sea parrot or puffin. It was the only piece of clothing worn by the shaman in his practice."Fringe includes pendant puffin beaks and thimbles.The term 'Shaman' is a western term. The term ixt is preferred.