Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These moccasins were made by the same person who made E020816-0.

FROM CARD: "SPOON.---MADE OF GOAT HORN. THE HANDLE IS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE HORN IN ITS NATURAL SHAPE, ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC DESIGNS CARVED IN RELIEF. THE BOWL IS MADE FROM THE LOWER PORTION OF THE HORN AND IS SHAPED BY STEAMING IT IN A WOODEN MOULD. THE HANDLE AND BOWL ARE RIVETED TOGETHER. LENGTH, 10 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 1/2 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,748. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

From card: "Not included in Swan inventory"

FROM CARD: "? #13120 - SAND SAW ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL.60; PL. 17, NO. 5; P. 48."Listed on page 115 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Saw".

FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING BLOCK OF WOOD DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES ALONG ITS MAJOR AXIS. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SO THAT WHEN LASHED TOGETHER THERE IS A CONTINUOUS AIR CHAMBER FROM UPPER END TO WITHIN A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF LOWER END. THE HALVES ARE LASHED TOGETHER AT UPPER END AND AGAIN HALF WAY OF THE TOTAL LENGTH, WHEN THE SMALL OR MOUTH END IS BLOWN INTO STRONGLY THE PRESSURE CAUSES THE LOWER END TO OPEN AND VIBRATE, ALLOWING THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, CAUSING A HARSH SOUND. THE REV. F. W. GALPIN OF ENGLAND CALLS THIS KIND OF REED THE "RETREATING REED". PROF. MASON HAS GIVEN IT THE NAME "INVERTED DOUBLE REED" WHICH I PREFER. (E.H.H.)"

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MAT.---WOVEN OF COLORED COTTON AND WOOLEN RAGS; ROUND CORNER. LENGTH 5 FEET. WIDTH 3 FEET 4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS, WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,425. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO E.B. WEBSTER, 1886.