PAIR OF SNOWSHOES MADE WITH A BENT WOOD FRAME WITH RAWHIDE (MUCH OF IT HAS FUR) NETTING. PUBLICATION: ILLUSTRATION IN USNM ANNUAL REPORT, 1894, FIG. 92, P. 408.FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 92; P. 408." Identified in publication as "Columbia River, Washington."Peale catalogue identifies these as "Snow shoes worn by the natives of the interior of Northwestern America."

FROM CARD: "MADE OF THE STIPE OF AN ALGAE. CESAR FONSECA 7/1968 SAYS THIS IS THE WRONG NUMBER."Note that donor Lt. J. W. White's name is mistranscribed on catalog card and ledger book as "J. M. White".

From card: "Very poor condition."Ruth Demmert, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat and could be either Tlingit or Haida.Basket fragment # E360696 might possibly be the top for this hat?

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 23, fig. 91; p. 278, also in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 60; Pl. 15, no. 4; p. 48."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=618 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Adze House and canoe builders did their heavy woodworking with stone-bladed adzes. The grooved blades were basalt, greenstone or jade, lashed to a handle made from a forked tree branch. On great occasions such as a house-building potlatch, the host might carry an adze to symbolize the wealth he had achieved by building and trading canoes.

Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution.

From card: "'Tadn skillik, and evidence of rank of chief. Each kako or basket (ring) or each section of a carved column represents the number of feasts or distribution of gifts given by the chief.' Swan's descriptive catalogue." AS OF 2006, CAT. #89075 CONSISTS OF ONE COLUMN OF 9 CYLINDRICAL WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. -F. PICKERING 5-10-2006

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."