FROM CARD: "SPOON.---MADE OF GOAT HORN. THE HANDLE IS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE HORN IN ITS NATURAL SHAPE AND IS ORNAMENTED WITH CARVED TOTEMIC DESIGNS THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOULD. THE BOWL AND HANDLE ARE RIVETED TOGETHER. LENGTH, 10 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 7/8 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,747. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution.1 of 4 exchanged, no date or recipient noted (see SI Archive Distribution List # 3)As of 2013, this consists of one slender bone point with barbs on one side and tang for attachment to a shaft.

From card: "Twilled weave, plain flexible basketry bag woven cedar bark grommets. Bottom, rectangular checker weave. Woven presumably, as a burial shroud. Recovered with skull, mandible and atlas vertebra (in Physical Anthropology)."

NO NUMBER; NORTHWEST COAST-TIN RING.

From card: "Used in tattooing. Two brushes [brush # 4 of 4 and brush # 2 of 4] Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 8, second from left and right, pg. 246. Loan [brush with bird handle, brush # 4 of 4 only was on loan]: NHB Lobby Exhibit Oct 24, 1991." Originally catalogued as consisting of 4 brushes and 5 needles. As of 2005, only the 4 brushes are present. Brush 1 of 4 has a plain handle. Brush 2 of 4 has a salmon on the handle. Brush 3 of 4 has a land otter on the handle. Brush 4 of 4 has a bird on the handle. ET15006 may be the needles from this set? - F. Pickering 5-31-2005 . Neg. #2005-22349 is a photo of 3 paint brushes #E88905 (# 1 of 4; # 2 of 4 and # 3 of 4) with the 5 needles # ET15006.Part of this object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Only 2 of the 4 brushes are on loan: #2 of 4 (also called B) with salmon carving, and #3 of 4 (also called C) with land otter carving.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on paint brush 2 of 4 (also called B) and paint brush 3 of 4 (also called C), http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=621 and http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=622, retrieved 6-24-2012: The two paint brushes were part of a set that also included tattoo needles, suggesting they may have been owned by an artist who specialized in body decoration. Clan designs were painted on the face for dances, ceremonies, girls' initiation, and death; tattoos were an important symbol of high rank, applied by paid artists of the opposite moiety (clan group) during potlatches. When the tip of a traditional brush wore down the artist restored it by pulling the bristles farther out of the handle.The handle of brush 2 of 4 represents a salmon. The handle of brush 3 of 4 represents a long-tongued land otter. The otter's tongue, emphasized by the carver, was the seat of its powerful spirit. "To make a paint brush they would take a small piece of wood and tie it about four inches from the end, then split it down to where the tie stopped it…They placed the hair inside the split… They used guard hairs from the porcupine because they are hollow and take up the paint." - Donald Gregory (Tlingit), 2005

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 57, fig. 302, p. 330 (Medicine and dance drum, Tlingit of Sitka). Also in Rept., 1896, pl. 70; p. 564." Identified in plate captions as "Medicine and Dance Drum. Tanned sheepskin stretched over a wooden frame. Totemic figure, the bear. It is beaten with an ordinary stick padded with cloth. Tlingit, Sitka, Alaska. Collected by Paymaster E.B. Webster, U. S. Navy." From late 19th or early 20th century exhibit label filed with card: "Hand drum of the Chilkats, Koluschan family. Shell, a hoop of bent wood; head, soaked, stretched across the hoop and nailed. Thongs are stretched across the back for a handle. Inside the head is painted with totemic emblems in red and black. Diameter 30 3/4 inches. Alaska. Collected, 1883, by E. B. Webster."Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This drum features a raven crest design, which may be traced back to the Raven Bone House because of the backbone and ribs on the design. This object is made of cedar wood, and was used for dancing. It is unclear if this drum was bought in Sitka from Chilkat people, or if it's a design/object of the Chilkat themselves.