From card: "Upper Village. Birch bark with exterior scratched decoration of serrated designs. Technically a perfect piece. "Chilcotin" is written on old tag with artifact."

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

From card: "Wood, one surface on each carved in low relief. [E316916-1] Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia, may 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.Carved soapberry spoon with flat spatulate serving end.

From card: "Shank of hard wood, blade of iron, lashing of split-spruce root. (Old)."In letter dated April 17, 1901 in accession file, Emmons identifies these objects as from Killisnoo. However, he also identifies Killisnoo as on Admiralty Island, but Killisnoo is on Killisnoo Island; it is Angoon which is on Admiralty Island. Because of this confusion, and because of the fact that Killisnoo and Angoon are only 2 miles apart, it is unclear whether these objects were collected at Killisnoo or Angoon.

FROM CARD: "8/5/66 - ONLY A SINGLE FRAGMENT OF #1786 REMAINS."

FROM CARD: "#2416 SLATE PIPE HAS A FIGURE WITH A 'HEAD' PROBABLY TAKEN FROM ANOTHER PIPE. GP. 2416 LABEL: "CARVED SLATE PIPE, HAIDA INDIANS, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WILKES EX EX"." Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on pipe itself and on catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Object was entered into the Anthropology catalogue ledger book January 5, 1867. It may have come from the National Institute, or from the War Department, or it might be that it was collected for Spencer Baird by James G. Swan. Illus. Fig. 1, p. 40 in Wright, Robin K., 1979, "Haida Argillite Ship Pipes," American Indian Art Magazine, 5(1). Identified there as a ship-motif panel pipe with horse harnessed to stern-like central cabin.