FROM CARD: "56458-9. 5 SPECIMENS - 25 CTS. EACH. 56459 - ROCKY MT. GOAT. " NOTE THAT NEITHER PEOPLE NOR LOCALITY IS IDENTIFIED FOR THIS OBJECT IN SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD OR IN LEDGER BOOK. CATALOGUE CARD LISTS SITKA, ALASKA AS LOCALITY. SOURCE OF THIS IS UNKNOWN, UNLESS IT WAS ASSUMED THAT LOCALITY FOR THIS OBJECT WAS THE SAME AS 56456. SEE LEDGER BOOK. - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

Listed on page 49 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)".

From card: "Transferred back to Div. of Ethnology from Engineering, Jan 25, 1934. Clubs are [were] attached to baskets. Illus. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig 5, p 426"

FROM CARD: "25 CTS. ."

FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTED."

FROM CARD: "TLINKIT USE THEM AS GONGS [sic]. PAINTED WITH DEVICES PREDOMINANTLY BLACK, SOME RED, AND A LITTLE GREEN. SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATED (FIG.3) AND MENTIONED IN TEXT (P.344) OF BOAS SOCIAL ORG. AND SECRET SOC. OF KWAKIUTL. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 3; P. 343." Caption for figure 3 in Boas states: "The painting on this plate represents the hawk. The upper face shows the hawk's head, and the lower face its body. The three lines on each side of the body are probably the talons."Anthropology catalogue ledger book and list in accession file (this object is # 30) identify this object as acquired in Sitka. It is included on list in accession file of objects "purchased of [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, Sitka."