Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.

From card: "Evidently a part of some shaman's paraphernalia. The thin slab of whalebone has incided figurine heads at either end, one resembling a turtle, the other a gull. Some of the incised lines are recent, others show weathering."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1890; Pl. 72, fig. 1; p. 416 Woman's knife, Kootznoo Indians (Kolushan stock)."From old label glued to artifact: "Ancient War Weapon, Koutznow Indians, Admiralty Island, Chatham Strait, Alaska Ter. June 24 1875 J.G. Swan"

FROM CARD: "60156A,B*. "*TWO SPECIMENS WERE FOUND WITH THIS NUMBER; HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED A & B."Listed on page 41 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".

At one time, the hat brim for this basketry hat had been given # 316947 and the hat crown was separately numbered as 316957. Subsequently, both parts of the hat have been reunited under number E316947.

FROM CARD: "PLAIN BRACELET. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF SILVER COIN, HAMMERED INTO THE REQUIRED SHAPE. NO ORNAMENTATION AND NO CLASP. WIDTH, 2/3 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,543. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." FROM CARD: "BRACELETS (4).---SILVER BANDS, FROM 5/16 TO 11/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; WITH OPEN-SPRING CLASPS, PLAIN AND BURNISHED EXTERIORS. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 3/8 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,546, 19,545, 19,544, 19,543. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

From card: "Old wood, handle and bowl continuous, carved on surface; conventional bird at end. Formerly part of the E. H. Harriman coll. [Accession # 54171 for year 1912], see [former] catalog number 274,223." Note: Harriman Accession was collected by John Green Brady, 1878 - 1909.

From Swan original tag with artifact: [Represents] "Indian woman from Cooks Inlet a medicine or conjurer, [presumbably collected in] Sitka, Alaska, 1881, J.G. Swan." Brass? button on right wrist of figure is decorated with Heraldic eagle grasping a bundle of arrows and an olive branch; eagle has shield on breast with an I? in center of shield.

FROM CARD: "COVERED. NO. 168273,-6 1/2" HIGH. 168274, - 4 3/4" HIGH LX. AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR, 2-21-03. 168275-6 AND 168278, 3" HIGH. 168277 AND 168279, -3 1/2" HIGH. 168280, 5 1/2" HIGH. 168,281, -8" HIGH. 168,282, - 6". NO.168,276 EXCHANGED WITH THOMAS WILSON. NO. 168,279 EXCHANGED. - MS. J. G. SAYERS 4/10/1897. 110 MARYLAND AVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. SENT AS LOAN TO L. J BERGER-AMER.-COLORTYPE CO. 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.-MARCH 27, 1903. 168,272-82. NO.168278: SENT AS GIFT TO MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA. C/O DR. S. Y. JAMESON, PREST. AUG. 6, 1906. #168282 - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 73; P. 548. #168277-ON EXHIBIT: HALL 11, MAY 1990."