From card: "With 72836 went a long partially curved stick which was returned from Cultural History. 4/15/82."

FROM CARD: "PUTNAM, 5/88."

From card: "Bent wood sides, heavy top inlaid with opercula; sides carved and painted. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 182. From: page 82, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page: 73. Chest. Wood; carved in relief; painted black and red; inlaid with opercula and abalone shell; kerfed and sewn. Length: 38 [inches]. Alaska. Collected by John G. Brady."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=321, retrieved 3-31-2012: Chest or Box, Tlingit, Southeast Alaska.Listed on page 43 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

FROM CARD: "ASSIGNED TO DIV. OF PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY DEC. 4, 1900. LENT TO MR. THOMAS WILSON. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION JANUARY 28, 1897."Among the information written on the artifact itself is "W.T.", i.e. Washington Territory.

From card: "Presented by Ellsworth [a.k.a. Ellswarsh], a chief. See U.S.N.M. Report 1888, p. 446, pl. 29. A rectangular box open at top. When used as a drum it is held on one corner, the open top towards the drummer and its sides beaten. The sides and ends are one piece of wood. Three triangular grooves are cut across the piece at the inside where the corners are to come the wood is bent a right angle. What splinters occur are speared off, giving rounded corners on the outside. The sides are painted with their conventional designs of the thunder bird, masks, etc. Used as a drum in their ceremonies." Note re photos: Neg. #s 96-20092 shows side 1, and 96-20093 shows side 2, of this box drum's painted sides.Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, Ellsworth or Ellswarsh may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.

FROM CARD: "WHALE RIB. LENT TO MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012. Identified as Marine Mammal/Walrus bone, rather than whale, during preparation of affidavits on organic materials for Mexico loan return, 2011.