FROM CARD: "*CHILKAT. BONE. INVENTORIED 1980."Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely #19 on the list.

Model of Catalogue No. E45968 made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes. Original is from Chilkat Tlingit, Alaska.No catalog card found in card fileAnthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this is a model of artifact E45968, modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is the model maker.Illus. Fig. 72 p. 71 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as killer whale amulet.

Neither object name nor description in remarks as typed on the catalogue card accurately describe this object. It seems some kind of mistake was made when the card was typed, because the object name and remarks typed on card # 89089 appear to describe rattle #89088 instead. The object name and drawing in the original Anthropology ledger book for 89089 do match this object, so object name has been changed in the database record to match the original ledger book entry. - F. Pickering 9-28-2006

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1888.Listed on page 43 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

From card: "Round foundation, flat coil bottom bulging side body; leather thongs about top. "Fillers on side of basket" illus. in BAE 41st AR, fig. 63, p. 276. Illus. in BAE 41st AR, Pl. 32a, p. 484. In BAE 41st AR Pl. 32a, Haeberlin et al. attribute this basket to the Thompson Indians. - J. R. (4/85)."Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies the basket as collected (probably purchased) in Victoria, B.C. and identifies it as Klikitat. Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify as Cowlitz or Skokomish, but in 1985 someone with initials "J.R." notes on the card that the basket was published as Thompson Indian in the BAE 41st Annual Report.

THIS IS A MODEL 1849 U.S. MOUNTED RIFLEMAN'S KNIFE (MANUF. JAMES T. AMES, CABOTVILLE, MASS.) MODIFIED WITH AN INDIAN-MADE HANDLE. - CHARLES WORMAN 2/1998 SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.