Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

FROM CARD: "UNFINISHED WITH SPOONS, DOLLS & C OF A CHILD."This unfinished basket, identified as Hutsnuwu Tlingit, is Swan original # 68. Ledger book indicates that Catalogue #s E20906, E20907, and E20908 are also original #68. Accession record entry indicates the basket # E20847 contained these toy spoons, dolls, and dish (E20906 - 8), therefore all these objects are being stored together.

From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Snow-shoes Round [illegible], round toe, strongly curved up; long, pointed heel. Toe and heel netting of twisted deer sinews; foot netting, coarse strong mahout, all rove through frame. Right and left, a slight difference being made in the curves of the frames. Secured to foot by two short loops over toes, and a long one around foot above heel. Length 47 ins. Greatest breadth, 11 3/4 ins. Sitka, Alaska, 1882. Collected by John J. McLean. Used by the Chilkaht-tena (Tinneh or Kaiyuh-Kha-tana) [rest of text cut off.] Chilkaht-tena may be Inland Tlingit? Tinneh = Athabaskan? Kaiyuh-Kha-tana may mean Ingalik/Deg Hit'an? Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies these objects as Chilkaht River, SE Alaska. A letter filed in Accession 12209 dated Sept. 23, 1882 from Sitka, Alaska, written by John J. McLean to Spencer Baird, seems to describe artifacts in accession 12214 rather than those of Acc. 12209. The letter indicates that the snowshoes are from "Chilcaht" and are of "modern manufacture."

One of two hooks with this number.

FROM CARD: "APRIL 20, 1901 - ONE SPECIMEN SENT LT. G. EMMONS, PRINCETON, N.J., AS EXCHANGE. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; PL. 37; P. 548."

This object is identified in Anthropology catalogue ledger book as a "Chilkat blanket pattern board." The word Chilkat was mistranscribed on catalogue card as Clilkat. See related objects E209964 and ET15491. See Fig. 404, p. 187, in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Pattern board at top appears to be this object.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=289 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Pattern board, Tlingit.Shgen George, a weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this pattern board is a diving whale.