FROM CARD: "SHIP'S BOTTOM COPPER SHEETING WITH NATIVE RIVETING. CONSISTS OF SHEET COPPER. 1-2 CM. IN THICKNESS JOINED BY COPPER RIVETS INTO FORM TYPICAL OF N.W. COAST INDIAN 'PROPERTY' SHIELDS. OUTLINE FORM ROUGHLY OBLONG WITH FLARING EDGES EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL TRANSVERSE MIDRIB TO TOP MARGIN. BOTH TOP & BOTTOM ARE CONVEXED DIAMOND-SHAPE. A SECOND REINFORCING MIDRIB EXTENDS LONGITUDINALLY FROM CENTER TO BASE. RIBS ARE 1-2 CM. DEEP V GROOVES OPENING ON REVERSE OF SHIELD. NO SUSPENSION LOOP OR ARM HOLD DESIGNS. DESIGN ETCHING ON OBVERSE. (TAKEN FROM AN EARLY LABEL:) NATIVE COPPER SHIELDS. THESE SHIELDS WERE THE MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE AND THEIR PRICE RECKONED IN SLAVES. ONE LIKE THIS WAS WORTH ABOUT FIVE SLAVES. WE HAVE QUESTIONED SEVERAL AUTHORITIES ABOUT THIS SHIELD AND THEY ALL SAY THAT IT IS UNDOUBTABLY MADE OF COPPER NUGGETS HAMMERED OUT FLAT AND RIVETED TOGETHER. ITS ORIGIN THE COPPER RIVER COUNTRY. THE OWNER WAS A PRINCE OF WALES NATIVE. THE DAY AFTER HE SOLD IT TO US HE TRIED TO PERSUADE US TO TRADE BACK."See BAE 46th Annual Report, p. 35, where acquisition of this artifact is discussed. Ales Hrdlicka purchased this object (as well as E332801, discussed on p. 34) from Robert Simpson of The Nugget Shop, a curio shop in Juneau, Alaska. Purchased by Hrdlicka in 1926, presumably in June of that year as was E332801. The publication indicates that, according to Simpson, he purchased the copper in "Klawak, Prince of Wales Island."

From card: "White stone. Crouching figure. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1972, p. 277." Identified in Far North catalogue as the bound figure of a witch, and attributed as Tlingit by C. Douglas Lewis.

From card: "Stiff band of barked [sic, should be bark] covered by diagonal wrapping of cedar bark cord, and tufted band of same at the upper edge. At rear two bands of cedar cords crossed over a bunch frayed cedar bark from an ornament. Worn in ceremonies."

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK."Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit object may originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.

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=272 , retrieved 8-12-2011, and also Dr. Aron Crowell, 3-19-2010: Moccasins Athabascan-style moccasins with Interior Tlingit or Tahltan beaded designs. Moccasins had originally been attributed as possibly Athabascan, but Athabascan advisers for the Arctic Studies Center exhibit "Sharing Knowledge: Alaska Native Peoples and the Smithsonian Collections" at the Anchorage Museum, did not recognize the beading style, and art historian Kate Duncan identified them as Interior Tlingit or Tahltan, based on their style of beading and shape - including high wool cloth cuffs and squared-off toes. Collector Herbert G. Ogden of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey purchased them at the coastal Tlingit village of Klukwan before 1895, a reminder of the extensive Tlingit trade with interior peoples that took place through Klukwan and the Chilkat River valley. Tlingit leaders dressed in Athabascan caribou-skin clothing and moccasins, and coastal clans adopted songs and dances from their interior trading partners. The letter of transfer in the accession file for the collection, dated August 1, 1895, states that items were "collected among the Alaskan Indians on Chilkat river".This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.