Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 603, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "PLAIN, UNDECORATED."

FROM CARD: "TRANSFERRED IN 1870. ILLUS. IN BAE AR #3, PL. 21, FIG. 48, P. 187."

Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. The design on this drum is not Tlingit and the elders commented they had not seen anything like it before. The handle and design of this object is unusual in comparison to similar Tlingit made objects.

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated that an object with this number is in their collections, now as catalog number 71.1885.78.258. Anthropology does not have a record of when/how this artifact left the collections. The Branly identifies it as part of an 1885 accession presumably to the Trocadero Museum.

Identified as of probable Makah manufacture by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003

From card: [Original] "Of marble, held a long time in the Tagwayta family of the Hootz-ah-tai-gwan, through many generations of chiefs. Original purchased from G. T. Emmons (Cat. No. 221181, Acc. No. 41512)." Original is Tlingit from Killisnoo, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "SHELL. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; PL. 9, NO. 5; P. 48."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 32 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Type of old spoon, consisting of a small clam shell set in wooden handle lashed with spruce root."Listed on page 42 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".

FROM CARD: "BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 13 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as used for netting webbing of snow shoes.