The Anthropology catalogue ledger book identified this pipe as carved in the form of a bear holding a bird in its mouth. The word "bird" was mistranscribed as "birch", on the typed catalogue card.

FROM CARD: "BLANKET WOVEN IN TRADITIONAL STYLE FROM HAIR OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT, WITH TOTEMIC DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN COLOR EFFECTED BY USE OF NATIVE VEGETABLE AND MINERAL DYES, FROM THE CHILKAT INDIANS OF S.E. ALASKA. PURCHASED [in 1940 for the Smithsonian U.S. National Museum] BY MRS. WALCOTT FOR $225 FROM MRS. BELLE G. SIMPSON, NUGGET SHOP, JUNEAU, ALASKA. LOANED TO RENWICK 4/29/1982, RETURNED 6/1983. MATERIALS: MOUNTAIN-GOAT WOOL; CEDAR-BARK FIBER; BLACK, YELLOW AND BLUE-GREEN DYE." SEE CATALOGUE CARD FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; P. 63, FIG. 336; P. 344."FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "GAMBLING STICKS.--MADE OF WOOD, THIRTY-FOUR IN NUMBER, POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH ABALONE (HALIOTIS) SHELL. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), SITKA, ALASKA. 20,789. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

As of 2009, E67979 consists of a dagger and two sheaths, and E67980, E67981, E67983, and E67984 consist of 1 dagger, each, though originally catalogued as including sheaths. It is possible that one of the sheaths currently numbered E67979 may actually belong with the dagger E67980, E67981, E67983 or E67984?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: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP, ITS ENDS SCARFED AND STITCHED TOGETHER WITH A TWISTED THONG, ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND HELD BY WOODEN PEGS DRIVEN IN BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR LEGS OR EARS ARE FORMED ON EDGES OF SKIN AND TWO LINES OF TWISTED THONGS ARE LINES CROSS IN THE MIDDLE, THUS FORMING A HANDLE."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Drum and drumstick on loan.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=521, retrieved 4-24-2012: Drum, Tsimshian. Shamans played skin drums during healing rituals, while performers at potlatches and secret society ceremonies more often used wooden box drums. This instrument is a bent wooden hoop covered by thin deer hide, with crossed rawhide holding-straps in back. The drum stick depicts a killer whale in human form, a tall dorsal fin projecting from its head.

This object is probably the box described on the December 1881 list in the accession file as "1 small double, oblong compartment box for grease."

Shgen George, weaver, and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket has a commonly used diving whale design, but some of the details are unusual: side braids were never attached, some of the lines are too thick, some of the weaving is too tight, and there is black in some of the corners where there would normally be blue.According to Helen Alten during visit on 8/29/24, this blanket was possibly woven by Jennie Warren (Warne).

FROM CARD: "BASKET. NO. 168,252 TWINED WOOF. 168,253 CHECQUER WEAVING, BLACK STRIPES."