FROM CARD: "THE PROXIMAL END OF AN ANTLER, WITH A FACE CARVED ON ONE SIDE, FACING DOWN FROM THE END, AND OUTLINES OF THE FIGURE IN SQUATTING POSITION TOWARD THE FURTHER END, THE STEM HOLE COMING OUT AT THIS END AND FORMED FROM A NATURAL BRANCH OF THE ANTLER. THOUGH IT APPEARS TO HAVE ACCULTUREATED INFLUENCES, IT HAS N.W. COAST TECHNIQUES RATHER THAN ESKIMO.-KRIEGER & ELDER."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 610, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford. and object is from Sitka Tlingit. field catalogue describes as "War club (broken) formerly used by Thlinkets, Sitka."

Listed on page 43 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".

TWINED BASKETRY IN SPRUCE ROOT; CYLINDRICAL BAND OF TWINED SPRUCE ROOT WOVEN INSIDE TO FORM INNER CROWN. UN-DECORATED.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] Stevens. This object was said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan and at one time to have had a label with it in Swan's hand.

FROM CARD: "CARVED STANDING WOODEN FIGURE; HANDS RAISED IN FRONT OF CHEST; UNPAINTED. REMAINS OF HAIR ON TOP OF HEAD. WEARING SKIN KILT WITH TINKLERS AND TWO CLOAKS PAINTED IN RED & BLACK TOTEMIC DESIGNS. NECKLACE OF CARVED BONE AND TEETH. WOODEN "POT-LATCH HAT" PAINTED IN RED AND BLACK ON HEAD."