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Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1159.
From card: "Ends extended to represent effigy of some bird, probably an eagle; painted. Undoubtedly a fictitious piec. From purchase tag [glued onto artifact]: "Old ceremonial bowl carved to represent a salmon. Haida, Alaska, rare. (reduced) $8.50 (crossed out) price $6.50"".
FROM CARD: "20620-1. SHORT HANDLES PLAIN."
From card: "For berries."
FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH TRADITIONAL SCROLL DEISGN WITH CLASP. INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (3).---SILVER BANDS, 3/4 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; HOOK-AND-EYE CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATER DIAMS., 2 1/4 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 1 7/8 TO 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,536, 19,537, 19,538. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."
FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE NOT PAINTED. DESIGN: AN EAGLE'S BODY, HEAD AND NECK. THE TAIL A GROTESQUE HUMAN MASK."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?