LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO VICTOR J. EVANS, WASHINGTON, D.C.

From card: "Clasp pin in form of the [Heraldic] American eagle with shield on breast."

The object name for catalog numbers e20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (e20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this as from Hoonah, Alaska. Hoonah was mistranscribed as Honnah on typed catalogue card.

FROM CARD: "CUT OUT OF LIGHT YELLOW WOOD, ELABORATELY CARVED AND FANCIFULLY PAINTED. REPRESENTS THE DUCK (THE BODY FORMING THE RATTLE BOX) WITH THE MEDICINE-MAN (SHAMAN) ON ITS BACK. THE DUCK'S TAIL IS NEARLY UPRIGHT AND IS CARVED TO REPRESENT A GROTESQUE FACE, WITH A LONG BILL EXTENDING TO THE SHAMAN'S MOUTH, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE SUCKING POISON THERE FROM; ON THIS BILL ARE TWO SMALL FROGS. THE HANDLE EXTENDS FROM THE REAR PART OF THE DUCKS BODY. LENGTH, 12 1/2 INCHES. NO. ON PRINTED LABEL 1,138 AN ERROR."

FROM CARD: "6/13/67 LOANED TO NAT'L ARCHIVES. RETURNED 8/5/68. REFER: COLLINS' MS. P. 900."Note: E63556 and 63557 were originally identified on their catalogue card as "Oomiak" paddles. However 63557 is actually a canoe model. It is a bit unclear in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book (from which the catalogue card is derived) whether 63556 and 7 were listed there as oomiaks (i.e. boats or more likely boat models), or as oomiak or boat paddles, like 63553-5.

FROM CARD: "OF SKIN. CONTAINING PAINT."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 27 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as "Small skin case containing native mineral? paint ... used to color the face on ceremonial occasions, applied by means of stencils."

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Carved & painted mask, with squid coronet. Carved from the solid. Unpainted except for green on facial features and crest. Wood used, presumably cedar or spruce. Tufts of hair pegged into crest symbolizing an octopus extending over crown from ear to ear. Cut sections of furred skin pegged and glued to upper lip and chin to represent moustaches and beard, also above eyes representing eyebrows (all now gone)."Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This object features an octopus design, a symbol belonging to a group in Sitka. It has eyes made of copper.