From card: "Hammered from coins. Chased in modern design (fish)." Per Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, these are made from silver half dollar coins. She also indicates that E153360A and B are almost identical and are decorated with dogfish with the face at the center and the body split to either side; E153360C is decorated with a design of two salmon with their heads meeting at the center and the bodies to the sides. E153360B is illus. Fig. 18, p. 47 and E153360C is illus. Fig. 17, p. 47, and all 3 are also described p. 72 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. See: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah. 1885. Alaska. Its southern coast and the Sitkan Archipelago. Boston Mass: D. Lothrop & Co. (a collection of the travel letters Scidmore wrote for newspapers during her Alaska trips of 1883 and1884). On pp. 128-9 of this publication, Scidmore describes a Hoonah silversmith at work. Bunn-Marcuse quotes a section on p. 47 of Precious Metals.

FROM CARD: "13096-101. #13099 LOANED TO IAIA SANTA FE., NM 1 APRIL 1966. LOAN RETURNED NOV 28 1966."Carved wooden figure of a man sitting on a box. Rattles are inside the box. The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man on box", and thus possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

FROM CARD: "16395-6. NOS. 16395-6: ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; PL. 23, FIGS. 4,5; P. 1056."There appears to be some kind of cataloguing error with this object. Ledger book and catalogue card call this Sitka, however it was published in USNM Annual Report for 1896 as Aleutian Islands, and original list in accession record also identifies it that way, with same provenance as toy lamp A16061. See Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 893.

RABBIT WITH FISH ON BACK CARVED ON END.

From card: "White stone. Crouching figure. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1972, p. 277." Identified in Far North catalogue as the bound figure of a witch, and attributed as Tlingit by C. Douglas Lewis.