FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1980."The accession record lists "3 pieces stone carving by Haida Indians of Queen Charlotte Island B.C." as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Soft leather, beaded floral design." Drawing of moccasin showing beadwork design is on reverse of the card, with the notation "Blue, green, red + black beads."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=687 , retrieved 2-12-2022: Moccasins, Tlingit. These moccasins were sewn from soft-tanned deer or caribou hide and beaded with striking leaf, flower, berry, and nut or catkin designs. The designs may be fanciful, rather than representing real plants. People of the southern Yukon region, including the Inland Tlingit, constructed moccasins of this type, with T-shaped heal seams and blunt toes. This pair was collected on the coast at Sitka, reflecting trade between coast and interior groups.

FROM CARD: "WHOLE AND BROKEN LABRETS OF SERPENTINE IN VARIOUS PATTERN-ONE WHOLE, THE OTHERS BROKEN."

FROM CARD: "23483-487. -23483 CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK & RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. -23485 PUTNAM 5/88. -23487 CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK & RED. 23483: LOANED RENWICK GA. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "23483. FROM: PAGE 57, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 39. CARVED BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA LENGTH: 10. ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JUNE 13, 1876. 23,483."