From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917]. Design four flying birds (eagle?)"

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID, STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL. REVERSE CUT VERTICALLY AT ONE INCH INTERVALS TO ONE QUARTER INCH DEPTH, FORMING NARROW GROOVES PERMITTING VISOR TO BE BENT CRESCENT SHAPE (NOW PERMANENT AND INFLEXIBLE). REVERSE ALSO EXCAVATED FOR NOSE CONFORMATION AND PERFORATED JUST BENEATH FOR BREATHING. SHALLOW CRESCENTS AT TOP IN FRONT OF EYES FOR VISION. PAINT COLORS: VERMILLION, TRACES OF GREEN. NEG. NO. 43,230 (FRONT). 43,230-A (PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE). 43,230-B (TOP)." See apparently associated object E60214. December 1881 list in accession file lists the frog helmet as being accompanied by a neck shield.McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonia. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.Alan Zuboff, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. In order to make this visor, the wood was soaked, not steamed. Typically wood is soaked for five days and then bent by hand to make an object like this.

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 611, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, and object was formerly used by the Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "43234-6. # 43235-SANDSTONE."

From Card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1893, pl 22, p 644... fig 2."Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.Shirley Kendall and Alan Zuboff made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The robe is made of moose-hide and is not smoked.