FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888, PL. VI - FIG. 6, P. 260. HEAVY FLAT COPPER BRACELET, INLAID ON THE UPPER SURFACE WITH PIECES OF ABALONE SHELL. 5/1964 ON PIECE OF SHELL MISSING FROM ONE OF THE PAIR. " FROM LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH THE CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF COPPER AND INLAID WITH SHELL. WIDTH, 5/8 INCH. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), FORT WRANGELL, ALASKA. 19,529. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. BAE AR 26, 1904-05, FIG. 105, P. 419. HOLLOWED OUT OF A SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD CA. 2 INCHES THICKNESS, WITH A GROOVE CUT JUST INSIDE THE LIP AREA FOR THE INSERTION OF SEPARATELY CARVED ROWS OF WOODEN TEETH, ONLY PART OF THOSE ON THE LOWER JAW LEFT (AS OF 1954). LIP AREA PAINTED BLUE. ALL BUT THE LIPS COVERED WITH SKIN WITH HAIR ON, ATTACHED AROUND THE LIPS WITH WOODEN PEGS. DOUBLE FLAPS OF SKIN SEWN ON TO FORM EARS. 'OWNED BY 'JIM COONIE', A KACHADI.'"

FROM CARD: "OF WOOD. SHAPED AND ORNAMENTALLY CARVED TO REPRESENT A SEA LION. CARRIED IN HUNTING AND FISHING CANOE TO KILL SEALS OR LARGE FISH BEFORE HAULING THEM INTO THE CANOE. LENT TO THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

FROM CARD: "PUTNAM 5/88." This seems to refer to a partial transfer. This information is also written in the second ledger book in red ink.The first Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists this object as "native cord from spruce roots, 1 bundle or coil." The second ledger book has this description, but the words "packing box" have been added as an addition in red ink to the description. In 1888, a bent wood box with this number was transferred to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. As of 2010, one coiled length of fiber cord with this number is still in the Anthropology collections.

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: TLINGIT*. REMARKS: *ORIGINAL SWAN TAG ON ARTIFACT STATES: "NO. 55 1 BUCKSKIN POUCH EMBROIDERED WITH SILK, STIKINE INDIANS, FORT WRANGEL, ALASKA"."Embroidered with floral design.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 40, FIG. 207; P. 316. 1/6/67: THE BOWL ILLUS. (ABOVE) IS NOT THE SAME AS USNM #20858. BASICALLY IT IS KWAKIUTL IN APPEARANCE (DRUCKER, BAE, 1955, P. 72), BUT HAS TWO IDENTIFICATIONS HAND WRITTEN ON THE INSIDE AND UNDERSIDE: 1-STIKINE INDIANS, FT. WRANGEL, ALASKA; 2 - NO. 77, HAIDA INDIAN, KLEMMAKOON VILLAGE [i.e. Klinkwan], PRINCE OF WALES ID. GP. THE ILLUS. SPECIMEN RETAINS CAT. #20858, THE CONFLICTING SPECIMEN IS CATALOGED #20858-A. LOAN TO 1876 CENTENNIAL COMM. 4/20/76. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."Listed on page 45 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)". Listed under incorrect number, 28858.

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)".

Provenience note: In the Fisher collection, Wrangell refers to a village in the Alaska Peninsula on Shelikof Strait. This is not the same place as the Wrangell located on Wrangell Island in the Tlingit area of Southeast Alaska.

FROM CARD: "*CHILKAT. STONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 18 on list) appears to attribute this to the Stikine Tlingit of Wrangell.