Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 616, collector is M. Baker and William Healy Dall. Object is described in accession list as "Shaman's cap, trimmed with seal teeth, Sitka Thlinkets."

From card: "'This piece is very peculiar since it is in the form of a Tlingit shaman's basketry hat but it is done in wrapped twining technique in cedar bark and grass - all typically Nootka.' - Bill Holm 11/19/(19)76. Illus. Fig. 121, p. 114 in A Guide to Weft Twining by David W. Fraser, Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1989."

Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 9 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Pumice stone from the tool box of a carver in wood ... it is used for working down metal or for cleaning metal, tools, etc."

NO. 51 'INDIANS OF WASH ST' HANDLE OF RATTLE WRAPPED WITH FIBER.

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELET.---HAMMERED OUT FROM A SILVER COIN AND ORNAMENTED WITH SCROLL WORK. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 19,539. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THE TOOLS USED IN MAKING THESE BRACELETS ARE OF THE MOST PRIMITIVE [SIC] KIND, CONSISTING OF A HAMMER, COLD CHISEL, AND A SHARP STEEL CARVING TOOL. ON THE LARGER BRACELETS THE TOTEMIC DESIGN OF THE WEARER IS USUALLY CARVED." FROM CARD: 19539-19540. #19539 (TLINGIT) - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 8, FIG. 27, P. 260. SILVER BRACELETS ALSO BEAR THESE NUMBERS & ARE ON ONE CARD COVERING 19530-46."