FROM CARD: "LEAFY SCROLL DESIGN NO CLASP. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (2)---SILVER BANDS, 15/16 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; OPEN-SPRING CLASPS; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 1/4 TO 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 TO 2 1/8 INS. ALASA, 1875. 19,534 AND 19,535. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "23312-8. 23313 CAMBRIDGE 5-07 ONE; 23313 CAMBRIDGE 5-88 ONE."

NW COAST; 2 PAINTED BOWS, 'SWAN HAIDA'.

FROM CARD: "STICK PREPARED FOR STEAMING & BENDING OUT A HALIBUT HOOK."

From card: "Very poor condition."Ruth Demmert, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat and could be either Tlingit or Haida.Basket fragment # E360696 might possibly be the top for this hat?

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 23, fig. 91; p. 278, also in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 60; Pl. 15, no. 4; p. 48."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=618 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Adze House and canoe builders did their heavy woodworking with stone-bladed adzes. The grooved blades were basalt, greenstone or jade, lashed to a handle made from a forked tree branch. On great occasions such as a house-building potlatch, the host might carry an adze to symbolize the wealth he had achieved by building and trading canoes.

From card: "'Tadn skillik, and evidence of rank of chief. Each kako or basket (ring) or each section of a carved column represents the number of feasts or distribution of gifts given by the chief.' Swan's descriptive catalogue." AS OF 2006, CAT. #89075 CONSISTS OF ONE COLUMN OF 9 CYLINDRICAL WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. -F. PICKERING 5-10-2006