From card: :Two sections of wood joined at front and center representing the two side of the head of some monster. Back of it a flap of strips of cedar bark and feathers; resembling art of Haida. Portions broken off. The mask is marked Haida as well as Neah Bay. Appears closer to the Nootka and Kwakiutl type rather than Haida."

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885.If this object is misnumbered, one possible alternate number might be 74397?

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *TLINGIT OF SITKA. REMARKS: MADE OF WOOD, CARVED IN TOTEMIC DESIGNS AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. *THERE IS SOME CONFUSION AS TO THE PROVENIENCE OF THIS SPECIMEN. ACCORDING TO THE CATALOG BOOK IT IS ALEUT, BUT IN USNM AR 1884, PT II, PL. XVII (LEGEND) IT APPEARS TO BE TLINGIT (SITKA). IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO #20771 COLL. BY J. G. SWAN AT SITKA IN 1875. BOTH SPECIMENS ARE EXTENSIVELY CARVED IN TYPICAL NW COAST ART MOTIFS. GEP. THE TLINKIT ARE KNOWN NOT TO HAVE USED THE THROWING STICK, WHILE IT OCCURS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE ESKIMO AREA. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 27, FIG. 127A,B; P. 286. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N44, P.141."Provenience uncertain. Original catalogue lists locality as Unalaska/Ounalaska, i.e. Aleutian Islands, but object was later published/identified as Tlingit from Sitka.Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this object is Eagle, and so belongs to the Eagle clan, but might have been made for trade.

HAS CATALOG CARD.

From card: "Carved of maple wood in high relief. Set with abalone and painted. Abalone set in resin. Rather good work." As of 2014, some of the abalone inlay is missing.See p. 48 in Wright, Robin K. "Two Haida Artists from Yani: Will John Gwaytihl and Simeon Stilthda Please Step Apart," American Indian Art Magazine 23(3), Summer 1998. Wright identifies this beaver motif frontlet as having characteristics of the style of Skidegate Haida artist Simeon Stilthda/Simeon sdiihldaa.

FROM CARD: "PLAIN BRACELET. INVENTORIED 1979."