LEDGER SAYS SENT ROCHESTER ATHANAEUM, 1903.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT./MUS. REPT 1884, P1. XVII, P. 306 ALSO IN USNM REPT, 1902; FIG. 103; P. 309, AND PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 60; P1. 7, NO. 7; P. 48."

FROM CARD: "BOW ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888; PL. 26, FIG.111; P. 286. ARROW ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT. 1893; PL. 51, FIG. 2; P. 679."

FROM CARD: "LABEL READS: "CHINOOK, SHOALWATER BAY, WASH." OBJECT IS ILLUSTRATED ON P. 9 OF DAVID IVES BUSHNELL, "DRAWINGS BY GEORGE GIBBS IN THE FAR NORTHWEST, 1849-1851," SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 97.8 (1938). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997. Bushnell indicated object was collected by George Gibbs probably in 1850 or 1851.For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 31, FIG. 155; P. 286 (TLINGIT)." FROM CARD: "FISHHOOK.---MADE OF SPRUCE, REPRESENTING A SEA-GULL. MADE IN TWO PIECES, LASHED AT THE JOINT WITH CEDAR BARK, THE SHANKS BEING CARVED WITH DESIGNS SUPPOSED TO GIVE GOOD LUCK TO THE FISHERMAN. THE BARBS WERE FORMERLY OF BONE OR SHELL, BUT LATER OF IRON. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), SITKA, ALASKA. 42,976. COLLECTED BY COMMANDER L. A. BEARDSLEE, U.S.N. NEG.NO. 6205."

From card: "Carved wood. Design: A human head with deeply sunken eyes. "Oala" [sic, should be Olala, Oolala, Ulala] (Mountain demon). A section is sliced from the back of the head which forms the cover to the cavity excavated in the head. The holes in back of head are for tufts of hair. The neck is fitted to be attached to a staff. Illust. in USNM Rept., 1895, fig. 203, p. 652. Loaned to the Whitney Museum of American Art 9-10-71. Returned ... 2-9-72." Identified in USNM Annual Report for 1895 figure caption as "Part of a headdress representing the Olala." On p. 653 of this publication it is noted about 89038, 89039, 89072 and 89073: "In his dances the olala of all the northern tribes use headdresses which represent a corpse...."Provenience note: Swan list for this object in accession file, under #92 on list of objects collected at Skidegate, Skedans, Laskeek, and Fort Simpson, B.C. in the summer of 1883, identifies it as collected at Skedans, and calls it "old head of Oolalla."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.