List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "Bow and 5 arrows."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 24TH AR, FIG. 1089, P. 793 6/1971 THOUGH 22 PIECES WERE RECORDED WHEN THE ABOVE REPORT WAS WRITTEN, AS OF THIS DATE ONLY 20 PIECES ARE IN THE COLLECTION.-R. ELDER. REFER TO. CAT. NO. 260,081 FOR A PROBABLY SIMILAR GAME."

From card: "Basket of spruce root, found in the rock cave burial place of a deceased Shaman of the Hook-ah-tar tribe of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. The cave was on a rocky headland of Admiralty Island, on the Chatham Strait shore near the old village of Neltooskin. This basket was used to drink salt water from before practicing or when fasting. The two bands of ornamentation are in the designs of the butterfly and the half head of the salmonberry. Fitted with a handle of twisted spruce root. Illus. Fig. 28, p. 20 in A Guide to Weft Twining by David W. Fraser. Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1989."

FROM CARD: "THE PROXIMAL END OF AN ANTLER, WITH A FACE CARVED ON ONE SIDE, FACING DOWN FROM THE END, AND OUTLINES OF THE FIGURE IN SQUATTING POSITION TOWARD THE FURTHER END, THE STEM HOLE COMING OUT AT THIS END AND FORMED FROM A NATURAL BRANCH OF THE ANTLER. THOUGH IT APPEARS TO HAVE ACCULTUREATED INFLUENCES, IT HAS N.W. COAST TECHNIQUES RATHER THAN ESKIMO.-KRIEGER & ELDER."

FROM CARD: "18905-6. BOTH SPECIMENS BADLY DAMAGED. IDENTIFIED, REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969... #18906 - PLAIN WITH ONE CARVED AND PAINTED CORNER POST."Catalogue No. E18943 appears to be related objects.

In a letter dated August 12, 1902, from Chilkat [Klukwan?], Alaska, and filed in Accession 39826, Emmons notes that he is going to make up a complete tool box "for the man" (i.e. presumably for a male figure/exhibit mannequin, as the "Chilkat family group" of exhibit mannequins at one time included a carver.) In papers in Accession 40238, this tool set is identified as a set of tools used by a Tlingit wood carver in making dug out canoes, masks, etc.. In a letter of Nov. 24, 1902 in the accession file Emmons says: "These thirty odd pieces are just about an average of what any man's box would contain. ... These pieces are generally from Chilkat, but represent the working tools of a man of any of the Northern Tlingit tribes."