FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE. (DUPLICATE. COPIED FROM CATALOG BOOK).Argillite ship panel pipe with bone or ivory inlay, rows of windows?, and two human figures with bone or ivory heads.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?

FROM CARD: "2ND HEADRING OF XANYADGAMGILOS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 84; P. 452."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, A SEA OTTER HUNTING CANOE WITH THE FULLY CONCAVE LINE TO THE PROW. EXTERIOR PAINTED BLACK ON LOWER HAFT AND RED ABOVE, THREE RED LINES ACROSS THE INTERIOR. 11/1963 - DR. F. DE LAGUNA. 11/1963 A SECTION OF THE RIGHT SIDE AT THE PROW END HAS BEEN BROKEN OFF.*-R. ELDER."

FROM CARD: "OF GAMTALAT. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 40; P. 416."

FROM CARD: 8944 A,B,C,D. NAME: *CHOP STICKS [sic], EATING STICKS. *BERRY SPOONS. REMARKS: CARVED WHALEBONE. 1 AND 2 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 41, FIG. 224; P. 318. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N106, P.156. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25, 1988."Entry on E8944A - D in Army Medical Museum ledger book for Section 6, Miscellaneous Section, under A.M.M. number 378: Received October 29, 1869, from Bvt. Col. A.H. Hoff, Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A. - "Two pairs of "chop-sticks" [sic] - implements use by the Indians about Sitka in taking their food."Florence Sheakley and Ruth Demmert, both elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Originally the design on this spoon was used as a filler design, but today people attribute it to Deisheetan clan, who have a bear design. The presence of a finger design suggests this object comes from Kaagwaantaan clan. This is part of a set that includes E8944A-0, E8944B-0, E8944C-0, E8944D-0

THICK SPRUCE ROOT CORE WRAPPED WITH 2 OR 3-PLY SPRUCE ROOT CORD TERMINATING IN A BONE TOGGLE. HARPOON HEAD IS MISSING.Letter from donor dated May 3, 1978, filed in accession file, indicates that this object was acquired from the Eskridge family in Olympia, WA, who are descended from Governor [Isaac Ingalls] Stevens. This object was said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan.