FROM CARD: "SHELL, A HOOP, ITS JOINT SCARFED AND LASHED ONE HEAD STRETCHED OVER HOOP AND NAILED. THE HANDLE IS A DOUBLE THONG PASSED THROUGH OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HOOP." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM OF THE TLINKITS, KOLUSCHAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS THE HOOP AND NAILED. THONGS ACROSS THE BACK FORM A HANDLE. DIAMETER, 18 1/2 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA. 20,733. COLLECTED, 1875, BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "BENT BOWL; RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE; CARVED IN RELIEF; BASE ONCE PAINTED RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED AND SEWN." FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 73, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 64. BENT BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; BASE ONCE PAINTED RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED AND SEWN LENGTH: 21 1/2. TLINGIT, SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY VINCENT COLYER. CATALOGED OCTOBER 2, 1872. 11,372."

FROM CARD: "CURVED. USED IN HOLLOWING OUT BOATS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 9; P. 737."In American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 190 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/658453?seq=4), D. W. Prentiss, Jr. appears to describe a knife like this in use to hollow boats and dishes during his visit to Yakutat Bay, Alaska in 1895. Prentiss had served as an assistant to Dr. Frederick William True, travelling to the Pribilof Islands for research on the summer 1895 voyage of the U.S.S. Albatross, whose return voyage stopped at Yakutat Bay.

“4 pr. salad spoons and forks carved in wood by Koloshian Indians.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.

FROM CARD: "LOAN: THE TEXTILE MUSEUM, 4/30/65. 20574 LOANED TO RENWICK 4/29/82. RETURNED 6/1983. FRONTLET WITH TRAILER, CA. 1850-75. HAIDA, OR POSSIBLY TSIMSHIAN INDIANS; FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. WOOD, ABALONE INLAY; RED, BLACK, AND GREEN PAINT; SEA-LION WHISKERS; ERMINE SKINS; RED AND WHITE CLOTH; BROWN FELT, SINEW; THREAD; BALEEN STRIPS 51 X 13 1/4 X 7 1/2 (129.5 X 33.7 X 19.1) THE FRONTLET SHOWS A CREST FIGURE THOUGHT TO BE A RAVEN. THE CROWNS OF FRONTLETS WERE FILLED WITH EAGLE DOWN, THE SYMBOL OF THE MANIFESTATION OF SPIRIT POWER IN THE HUMAN WORLD. AS THE DANCER MOVED AND TURNED, THE DOWN FLOATED OUT OF THE HEADPIECE, FILLING THE AIR WITH THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITUAL BENEDICTION." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: 'HEAD-DRESS - CAP OF FELT, TO WHICH IS ATTACHED IN FRONT A WOODEN MASK CARVED, PAINTED, AND INLAID WITH ABALONE SHELL, AND BEHIND A ROW OF SMALL SKINS OF WHITE ERMINE, PUTORIUS ERMINEA, AND A PENDANT BAND OF COTTON SHEETING LINED WITH ROWS OF ERMINE SKINS. AROUND EDGE OF CAP IS A ROW OF LONG SPINES OR WHISKERS OF SEA-LION. WORN IN DANCING BY NASSE [Nass] INDIANS, FT. SIMPSON. MASKE, 8 1/4 INS. LONG AND 6 1/2 INS. WIDE. LENGTH OF DRESS BEHIND, 40 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. COLLECTED BY J.G. SWAN. THE MASK REPRESENTS YEHL, THE RAVEN, ONE OF THE FOUR TOTEMS INTO WHICH THE KOLOSH OR THLINKET STOCK OF INDIANS DIVIDE THEMSELVES. - DALL'S ALASKA AND ITS RESOURCES."

The objects in this accession were collected primarily for use on museum exhibit mannequins representing a Chilkat Tlingit family group. It may be speculated that this hair was to be used as part of the exhibit.

Carved decoration. Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

From card: "The exterior is painted to represent totemic animals."