Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOODEN SPOON. THIS IS A GENUINE OLD SPOON WHICH HAS BEEN MADE FOR USE AND NOT FOR SALE."

U.S. MUSEUM NO. 10258; 7 PARTS OF SLED OR HOUSE? ESKIMO OR NWC (1 NOW 89893); 1 HAS NO. 76314 WRITTEN ON IT AND IS PROBABLY A DIVISION OF ENGINEERING NO. CORRESPONDING TO A DUGOUT BOAT/CANOE OF SOUTH ALASKA INDIANS? -SEE COLLINS BOAT BOOK-F.PICKERING 8/.

McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonia. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.

FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 64, P. 61. " Crossroads figure caption identifies pipe as representing "... a killer whale "tail-walking", as it sometimes appears, inspecting the world above water ...".

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD SAY 1/9 SENT TO LEIDEN, HOLLAND. 1899. SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/9 SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885.See Cat. 116 p. 1194 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on a halibut hook, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.225, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E73741.