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

OR 30022/30027OR 30025/30030

CATALOG CARD SAYS SENT TO REV. F.W. GALPIN, HADDON, ENGLAND. 1902, but this is apparently incorrect, since the whistle remains in the NMNH collection.

FROM CARD: "A TYPICAL BLANKET OF THE GROUP WITH THE BASIC COLOR OF DARK BROWN INTO WHICH IS WOVEN THE MYTHOLOGICAL DISSECTED ANIMAL DESIGNS IN LIGHT BLUE-GREEN, AND YELLOW AND NATURAL WHITE. WIDE BORDER OF DARK GREEN; 15" WHITE FRINGE ON BOTTOM. THIS SPECIMEN PURCHASED IN JUNEAU ALASKA BY MRS. CROSS IN 1887 OR 1897."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=359 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: TLINGIT*. REMARKS: *ORIGINAL SWAN TAG ON ARTIFACT STATES: "NO. 55 1 BUCKSKIN POUCH EMBROIDERED WITH SILK, STIKINE INDIANS, FORT WRANGEL, ALASKA"."Embroidered with floral design.