FROM CARD: "BEAR'S JAW AND TUSKS."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 7 on list) appears to attribute this to the Hoonah Tlingit of Gau-da-can (i.e. Hoonah). List identifies this object as a "Bear's jaw ... used to give the fine edge to carving knives after they had undergone sharpening on? the whetstone. The edge is drawn on the tusks."

From card: "Twined basket with series of three American flags as design on body; two on top of lid; spruce root & cedar bark."

FROM CARD: "PLAIN, NO DECORATION. FORM OF THE TRADITIONAL "COPPER". REF. DAWSON, "HAIDA INDIANS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISL.," CANADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PROVISIONAL REPORT 1878, FIG. 135 B."In a letter dated September 8, 1881 filed in Accession No. 11616, in the postscript to the letter McLean says "I send by this mail a copper shield made by a Hoochenoo [Hutsnuwu Tlingit] Indian from native copper, and said to antedate the Russian occupation of Alaska. This curiosity is sent with the compliments of Mr. Carl Spuhn Manager NW Trdg. Co. [Northwest Trading Company] S.E. Alaska." It is possible this refers to E60648 (or E67947)?

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."

FROM CARD: "SECOND HEADRING OG "HAYALIKWAI" ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 176; P. 520."

From card: "Beaver and bear motifs."

From card: "Twined. Decoration, five strips of introduced material, black."

From card: "Made of inner bark of red cedar, bottom in checkerwork, body in open wicker work in which the warps are crossed backward and forward between the pairs of wefts." From Emmons tag with the artifact: "Kwakiutl basket East + Nor West Coast of Vancouver Id, made of red cedar inner bark, used to carry + keep small pieces of clothes +c in." Tag also indicates this was given Conservation Lab number C351 at one time.