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Accession record identifies as Chilkaht Alaska. It is unclear if Chilkaht is a cultural identification, a place, or both.
From card: "The bag is made of the foot skin of a bird; top of buckskin. Has embroidered beadwork the word "Sitka". Possibly tourist piece."
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. As of 2010, body and cloth shirt of doll E75451 are present, but there is no head.
FROM CARD: "43234-6. #43234 - SERPENTINE. #43234-ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 23, FIG. 87, P. 278."
Design on basket identifed as track of land otter by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003.