FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAIR PLUMES (2).---A NUMBER OF TRIMMED FEATHERS ATTACHED TO THE UPPER END OF A POINTED STICK BY WRAPPINGS OF STRING. LENGTH, 12 1/4 INCHES. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 46,497. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."It is unclear from records if E46496 and 46497 are related objects?

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID. STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL OPERCULA. REVERSE EXCAVATED TO FIT NOSE, ALSO PERFORATED FOR BREATHING HOLE JUST BENEATH. VERTICAL ONE-FOURTH INCH DEEP GROOVES PERMITTING OVAL CURVATURE CUT INTO REVERSE SIDE. OVAL SHAPE, ENDS JOINED AT REAR WITH RAWHIDE THONG. PARTLY PLAIN, AND IN PART PAINTED IN VERMILLION. NEG. NO. 43,230F (FRONT) 43,230-G (RIGHT SIDE). NEG. NO. 43,021.16,222. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 256."

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.

FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH TRADITIONAL SCROLL WORK DESIGN. INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (3).---SILVER BANDS, 3/4 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; HOOK-AND-EYE CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATER DIAMS.,2 1/4 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 1 7/8 TO 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,536, 19,537, 19,538. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELET.---SILVER BAND, 5/8 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLET, OPEN-SPRING CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAM., 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAM., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,540. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

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.