From card: "Coiled and imbricated." Identified as southern Puget Sound type by Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007.

FROM CARD: "HEAD OF BIRD."

A BLACK-BRIMMED HAT. TIGHTLY WOVEN, CONICAL RAINPROOF HAT WHICH IS SLIGHTLY CONCAVE AT THE TOP. A HEAD CAP IS WOVEN IN THE INTERIOR FOR A CLOSER FIT. THE EXTERIOR IS PAINTED WITH A BROAD BLACK RIM BAND WITH ABSTRACTED FORMLINE DESIGNS IN RED AND BLACK AT THE TOP. THIS PEALE NUMBER HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER FOR PURPOSES OF IDENTIFICATION. Note re photos: Neg. # 88-15534 is shot of hat from side.

FROM CARD: 8944 A,B,C,D. NAME: *CHOP STICKS [sic], EATING STICKS. *BERRY SPOONS. REMARKS: CARVED WHALEBONE. 1 AND 2 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 41, FIG. 224; P. 318. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N106, P.156. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25, 1988."Entry on E8944A - D in Army Medical Museum ledger book for Section 6, Miscellaneous Section, under A.M.M. number 378: Received October 29, 1869, from Bvt. Col. A.H. Hoff, Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A. - "Two pairs of "chop-sticks" [sic] - implements use by the Indians about Sitka in taking their food."Florence Sheakley and Ruth Demmert, both elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Originally the design on this spoon was used as a filler design, but today people attribute it to Deisheetan clan, who have a bear design. The presence of a finger design suggests this object comes from Kaagwaantaan clan. This is part of a set that includes E8944A-0, E8944B-0, E8944C-0, E8944D-0

FROM CARD: "ELABORATELY CARVED OF BLACK CLAY SLATE; THE FIGURE, PRESUMABLY OF A SEA CAPTAIN, DRESSED IN A FORMAL FROCKCOAT, WITH A VISORED CAP. THE FACE IS CARVED OF IVORY AND FASTENED INTO THE SLATE HEAD. *THIS NUMBER IS LISTED IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOGUE BOOKS AS BEING A SLATE PIPE. HOWEVER, IT IS TO BE USED FOR THIS SPECIMEN. HEAD BROKEN OFF; CAP BROKEN: REPAIRED, 3/13/51 RAEJR. RE-REPAIRED JULY, 1974. REPRODUCED BY ALVA STUDIO, OCTOBER, 1974."Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Object was entered into the Anthropology catalogue ledger book January 5, 1867. Per Jane Walsh, the argillite figure of a sea captain doesn't appear on any of the U. S. Exploring Expedition official lists of objects. Also, the U. S. Exploring Expedition only collected argillite pipes, and one argillite figure, a woman that we no longer have in the collections. The only thing we really know about the two captain figures (other one - formerly E2414 - is now in The National Museum of Denmark collections) is that they came into the SI in the 40 cart loads of material from the "Government Collections" in the Patent Office in 1858. So it could be they are from the National Institute, or from the War Department, or it might be that they were collected for Spencer Baird by James G. Swan.Per Stephen Loring, this sea captain figure probably depicts a Yankee sea-captain or so-called "Boston Man."

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.