FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E168297-0 Shirt and E168297-1 Moccasin trousers are both on loan.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=263 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Shirt Interior Tlingit and Athabascan peoples produced beaded caribou skin clothing that they traded to the coast, where clan leaders and others of high rank wore it during potlatches and dance ceremonies. This fringed shirt has the beaded cuffs, front panel, and shoulder pads (epaulets) of a Yukon River "hunting shirt," inspired by English clothing that was imported by the Hudson's Bay Company. The style of beadwork is probably Interior Tlingit or Tahltan. Clarence Jackson noted the 'shark teeth' design made with black cloth on the cuffs and bottom hem. "Oh yes, a dance shirt, a real one. And it's possible that these are shark teeth on the bottom and on the cuffs." - Clarence Jackson (Tlingit), 2005

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "20704 - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; PL. 71; P. 548. 20704A - ILLUS, PL. 72; P. 548."

From old label in James G. Swan's hand glued onto artifact: "Haida dance rattle, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC. J G Swan [of] Pt. Townsend. Dec. 1884."

From card: "Bear, raven, and beaver motifs." Illus. Pl. 305, p. 384 and described p. 410 in Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as (from top), beaver, raven, bear, and attributed by Henry Young to John Robison (a.k.a. John Robson) of Skidegate.