From card: "Leather neckpiece, bone ornaments."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From 2008 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report by Michele Austin-Dennehy: The shaman's necklace has a stiff leather covered ring with hanging pendants of bone. The neckring is a large oval stiff ring, round in section, possibly of wood covered with an inner wrapping of fabric and an outer cover of reddish tanned leather stitched with sinew. The leather is pieced to the ring with very visible overcast stitching of the sinew thread. There are three flat carved and incised pendants and twenty-two long finger like pendants are attached to the ring with sinew cordage. The largest pendant is attached just below the ring and hangs horizontally. It is attached to the neckring through a small perforation on the upper back of the carving. Two smaller rectangular pendants flank the central one. The top and bottom of each pendant has a small perforation for attachment to the neckring. The twenty two narrow tapering finger like pendants hang from sinew and replacement thread through perforations at the top of each pendant. The thread is sewn into the cloth and leather of the neckring. Some of the pendants taper to a point, others are blunt. Some curve along their length.

From card: "For "strike-a-light".Accession record identifies as "one of the sort made by the Russians to trade."

FROM CARD: "ON LOAN TO CITY OF BUENOS AIRES-MARCH 25, 1954-LOAN WAS RETURNED 1955.

1 arrow from this set is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "[Bow] 75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabascan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75454 as Tlingit type; narrow.] An arrow, # 75454 was lent to the Crossroads of Continents exhibit, Sept., 1988, as # 16407 (by mistake). Hence the object illustrated in the Crossroads catalog as # 16407 [Fig. 76 on p. 73] is actually # 75454. The mistake was discovered when the loan returned Jan. 21, 1993. (S. Crawford, 2-23-93)." Identified in Crossroads catalogue caption as "Harpoon arrow for sea otters."One arrow appears in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell. The entry on this arrow in the website http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=616 , retrieved 12-30-2011, is the source of the information below: Sea otter arrow, Tlingit, Yakutat, Alaska. Fleets of canoes cruised the coast to find sea otters, encircling one when it was found. Hunters pierced it with the barbed tips of harpoon-arrows, which then dislodged from the shafts, leaving them to trail behind on sinew cords. Otters were depleted in most of southeast Alaska by 1825, but hunting continued at Lituya Bay, Yakutat, and Icy Bay until the early twentieth century. This arrow has a willow shaft and barbed bone tip. Length 123 cm..

Abalone shell inlay. Killer whale and eagle or raven motif, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

From card: "Made in Siberia." Collected in Sitka, Alaska. See E103563 for similar object.