FROM CARD: "ON UPPER PART ARE CARVED A HUMAN FACE, PUFFIN AND PORPOISE; HANDLE PAINTED GREEN; UPPER PART PAINTED BLACK, GREEN, RED, ETC. PROBABLY MADE FOR TOURIST TRADE. LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

From card: "Construction as in 305797; bottom heavy; lid recent in part; sides painted, ends plain. "From Wrangel" collected 1891."May be Tlingit?, based on Wrangell area of origin. Currently stored as Tlingit.

From card: "Of red cedar bark in the checker weave, from Wrange [may be Wrangell?] the stickleen [probably Stickeen/Stikine?] tribe of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska. A general carrying and storage basket, used at home and in canoe travel." Comments above in brackets are by F. Pickering, 5-20-2009.

From card: "(A & D) Illus. Bu. Ethno. Ann. Report #26, p. 420, fig. 106. Note: Apparently prior to Dec. 1969 these specimens had not been numbered. The former dimensions and quantity (1) were also in error as shown in the old catalog book. Previous attributions to James Swan now seem to have little basis. -GP (George Phebus). Bear crest designs. See: The Far North, Nat'l. Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973, Pl. 235, pg. 188-189 (where all 4 are illustrated). Loaned to the National Gallery of Art October 20, (19)72. Returned 5-29-(19)73. A & C Loaned to Renwick 7/28/(19)82. Returned 1983. (Excerpt from exhibit catalogue for Renwick exhibit, called Celebration, A World of Art and Ritual, is taped to back of card. Objects are described as:) House screens, ca. 1850-1900, Tlingit Indians; Wrangell, Alaska, wood, fiber lashing, red and black paint, non-Indian frames." ... cont., see card.According to Eric Hollinger, Repatriation Office, Feb. 2007, E233498 was originally a pair of house screens measuring 7ft by 14 ft each. Both screens were sawed in half after they arrived at the museum and framed. Red borders were painted on each of the four sections and the same red paint was then applied to touch-up the red paint of the figures (based on Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute XRF analysis). Screen E233498A originally articulated with E233498D but they were separated when they were sawed in two within the museum. E233498A was on the left and E233498D was on the right. E233498B was originally articulated with E233498C before it also was sawed in two pieces within the museum. E233498B was on the right side and E233498C was on the left side. The screens were purchased by John R. Swanton from Mrs. Robert Shadesty in Wrangell, Alaska in 1904. See the Repatriation Office Tlingit case report (Hollinger et al. 2005).This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=667 , retrieved 1-5-2012: House screen This carved and painted screen is from a Tlingit clan house and was once part of a wall that separated off a rear room reserved for the house leader and his immediate family. The red cedar panel may be two hundred years old or more. The central figure has been interpreted as Beaver because of its large incisors, and the design may refer to the Deisheetaan story, "The Beaver of Killisnoo." However, Beaver crests are owned by several Raven and Eagle clans and the precise meaning of the art is unknown. The figure may even be a bear, or marmot.Florence Sheakley, Shirley Kendall, and Alan Zuboff, all three elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Screens like these were used in houses to separate compartments, with screens in the back and the front of the house. Florence gives the Tlingit word for these screens (rv_Tlingit_20170320_004; 9:59). Alan pointed out that since there was no smoke line or sun bleaching, they were likely used indoors. Shirley commented that screens like this were no longer being made when she was growing up.

From card: "...B) whale bone; curved shaft, circular carved head."Listed on page 46 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".