Three printed paper placemats. Blue background, with a photo of Mark Jacobs, Jr., killer whale clan symbols, and the words "Dakl'aweidi Memorial - September 1 & 2, 2007 - Sitka, Alaska"This place mat is representative of the kinds of items provided at place settings for Tlingit memorial potlatches. This one as used at the potlatch of Mark Jacobs in 2007. It shows a photo of Jacobs wearing the NMNH Killer Whale Dakl'aweidi clan hat (formerly NMNH catalog number E230063) on January 2, 2005, when it was repatriated to him in a Sitka hospital. The two killer whale images on either side of his photo are the killer whales on Mark's clan house in Angoon; commonly called the "Killer Whales facing away house". This item shows how imagery at memorial potlatches honor the individual memorialized as well as their clan crest connections through their crest symbols."

FROM CARD: "[Only] ONE HALF SHOWN IN [Anthropology catalogue ledger book] DRAWING."Object has rows of fringe, and painted red and black formline design panels on two borders. Cylindrical red beads on ends of some of fringes.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.Florence Sheakley and Shirley Kendall, both Tlingit elders, made the following commentsduring the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This object is a cape that comes from Kagwaantan clan and has an identical wolf crest design on both ends.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 14; P. 394." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.---FRAME OF WOOD; ROUNDING TOE, STRONGLY CURVED UP; LONG POINTED HEEL. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE AND FINE, MADE OF LINES OF PREPARED DEER SKIN, OR BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSE, STRONG MAHOUT, ROVE THROUGH FRAME. PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS. LOOPS FOR FASTENING THE SHOE TO THE FOOT. THESE SHOES WERE NOT MADE TO BE WORN INTERCHANGEABLY ON RIGHT AND LEFT FOOT, THERE BEING A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN THE SHAPE OF THE TWO FRAMES. LENGTH, 49 INCHES; GREATEST WIDTH, 11 3/4 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA, 1882. 63,558. COLLECTED BY JOHN J. MCLEAN. WORN BY THE TINNE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK) AND BROUGHT TO SITKA IN TRADE. NEG. NO. 5521."

This game is described on p. 243 - 244 of "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. Culin identifies it there as stick game. Gambling sticks are stored in an El Roi-Tan cigar box.

The object name for catalog numbers e20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (e20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.

FROM CARD: "LEDGER BOOK CALLS THIS "CARVED STATUE (SHAMAN'S GUARD)" AND ALSO COMMENTS "OLD. ONE OF THE TWO CORNER POSTS." THIS REPLACEMENT CATALOGUE CARD MADE 4/14/1989 FROM LEDGER BOOK AND INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SUE ROWLEY [who identifies object as a house post].-F. PICKERING."Catalogue card lists a photo negative number of MNH2331 for this object, but that is an error; MNH2331 is a photo of a different object.

This object is # 33 on McLean's list of objects in the accession file. He notes that this object was "found in the attic of the Russian castle, location of U.S. Signal office."