FROM CARD: "NET. SINEWS."

Small ivory head with carved features. Beige cotton calico print shirt and skirt.List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Fish Hook. Bent wood with iron barb lashed with spruce root."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=676 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Halibut hook, Tlingit This is a southern style of halibut hook, used occasionally by the Tlingit but more commonly by the Haida and other Northwest Coast peoples as far south as Washington. It was made from a single piece of bent wood, with an iron barb and spruce root lashings.

FROM CARD: "MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL DYED BROWN, YELLOW AND BLUE, WOVEN ON A WARP OF WOOL AND BRAIDED CEDAR-BARK FIBERS; DEERSKIN TYING STRAPS. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 216. 168,292 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75 LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988." Illus. Fig. 563b, p. 372, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907.Shgen George, weaver, and Shirley Kendall. elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The top of this blanket is stretched due to use. The design of the head of this suggests diving whale, but the absence of a tail leaves it unclear. Diving whale designs are not clan-specific. Shirley notes that she was told in a diving whale design, faces in the middle typically have a yellow mask, but if it's plain, the design is meant to relfect the spirit of the animal.5 lines of dark thread at the bottom right and left corners of the blanket along the edge's braiding represents the weaver's signature. Information recieved by Chilkoot Indian Association visit 8/29/2024.

FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E168297-0 Shirt and E168297-1 Moccasin trousers are both on loan.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=262 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Moccasin pants Tlingit chiefs and nobles wore fringed and beaded moccasin-pants made from tanned caribou hide. The clothing was acquired through trade with the Tahltan, Tutchone, Ahtna, and other Athabascan peoples. Bands of colorful trade beads recreate old-style designs formerly made with dyed porcupine quills. See also the remarks for the shirt from this clothing set, E168297-0. The Sharing Knowledge website entry on the shirt notes that its beadwork style is probably Interior Tlingit or Tahltan.

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."