FROM CARD: "LOAN: R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM, 12/31/64. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DANCING CAPE.---MADE OF A SINGLE PIECE OF BUCKSKIN AND STAMPED WITH BLACK AND RED PAINT. THE HEAD IS ADMITTED THROUGH THE OPENING AND THE CAPE IS SUSPENDED FROM THE SHOULDERS. ATTACHED IS A FRINGE OF BUCKSKIN. INDIANS OF SITKA, ALASKA, 1876. 20,900. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. WORN BY MEDICINE MAN."List in accession file does not identify either a culture or locality for this object. Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Sitka, though that might be the place of purchase?

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

FROM CARD: "$1.50."

McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonia. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.

From card: "Large. Kla-ash."Described p. 105 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Basket. A large basket,"Kla-ash," used by natives for holding spear-heads, harpoons, and lines, when sealing. Length, 28 inches. Port Townsend, Washington Territory, January, 1883. James G. Swan. These baskets are never offered for sale. The prices asked for them, when a native is induced to sell, exceed those for the ordinary baskets."

Listed on page 50 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 (Tools)".