FROM CARD: "CARVED WITH HERALDIC DEVICES."List in accession record identifies as "#62 - 2 pieces of leather, carved in heraldic designs, from Koutznow Indians, Admiralty Island Chatham Strait, Alaska."

FROM CARD: "TROCADERO 7-85. EXCHANGE-MISS. GRACE NICHOLSON 46 N. LOS ROBLES AVENUE, PASADENA, CALIF. JUNE 20, 1904."Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, has identified some, but not all, of these mats as of Makah manufacture, 3-2003.Listed on page 44 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".In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated they have a mat listed as old Smithsonian # 20727, Branly catalog number 71.1885.78.330. 20727 may not be the correct number. It is possible this object is actually E20728, since records indicate at least one mat from 20728 went to the Trocadero Museum in 1885.

FROM CARD: "TO HOLD PAPERS."Anthropology catalogue ledger book and list in accession file (this object is # 47) 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."

Provenience note: locality recorded on the catalogue card is Sitka, however "Admiralty Is." is written on artifact itself by museum cataloguer.

FROM CARD: "SIXTEEN LARGE PECTEN SHELLS ARE PERFORATED NEAR THE HINGE AND STRUNG ON A HOOP OF SPRUCE ROOT; AT THE HANDLE IS A BUNDLE OF FEATHERS LIKE THOSE FROM A TURKEY, AND STRIPS OF RED AND BLUE FLANNEL WOUND WITH THREE BANDS OF RED. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, ART. 9; PL. 38, NO. 7; P. 48. LOANED TO RENWICK 9/3/81. RETURNED 1983. ILLUS.: P. 80, PL. 64, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982. SHELL RATTLE, CA. 1850-73. CLALLAM COAST SALISH INDIANS; PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON. SPRUCE-ROOT HOOP, RED AND BLUE FLANNEL, STRING,FEATHERS, SCALLOP SHELLS. SCALLOP-SHELL RATTLES LIKE THIS ONE WERE PART OF THE CEREMONIAL REGALIA OF THE SAIHWE DANCERS, A RELIGIOUS SOCIETY AMONG SOME OF THE COAST SALISH PEOPLES OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE SAIHWE PERFORMED DURING CEREMONIAL RITES OF PASSAGE AND WHENEVER AN INDIVIDUAL ASSUMED A NEW STATUS AND GUESTS RECEIVED GIFTS. SAIHWE DANCERS WERE FOUR IN NUMBER, EACH WEARING A BIRDLIKE MASK, A NECK SHIELD, ROWS OF SWAN FEATHERS, LEGGINGS OF SWANSDOWN SKIN, AND DEER-HOOF ANKLETS. A DANCER CARRIED A CEDAR BRANCH IN HIS LEFT HAND TO BALANCE THE SCALLOP-SHELL RATTLE HELD IN HIS RIGHT HAND. ILLUS. HANDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 11 BOTTOM RIGHT, PG. 468."

FROM CARD: "SIMILAR TO 4,120, EXCEPT THAT THE COVER HAS A WEASEL CARVED ON IT. THE BODY IS PLAIN AND SOMEWHAT OF AN ENLOGATED EGG-SHAPE."

FROM CARD: "SEE U.S.N.M. DIST. 5-26-77 EX. PEABODY MUSEUM." Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates part of this exchanged with Trocadero Museum, France, July 1885.See Cat. 126 p. 197 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.76, which their records incorrectly identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E25350. It is probably instead formerly E23350.