From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Bracelet - Horn, inlaid with pearl shell, Haliotis kamschatkensis [i.e. abalone]. Nasses Indians, near Fort Simpson. Greatest diam. 2 1/2 ins. Least diam. 1 1/2 ins. British Columbia, 1870. Collected by Lieut. F. W.[sic, should be M.] Ring, U.S.A."

FROM CARD: "SENT AS LOAN TO L. J. BERGER - AMER. COLORTYPE CO. 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. MARCH 27, 1903. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT., 1902; PL. 73; P. 548."

FROM CARD: "TWO-BLADED DAGGER. MADE OF IRON, ONE BLADE LONG AND TAPERING, THE OTHER SHORT. THE UPPER OR OUTER SIDE OF EACH BLADE IS DIVIDED INTO THREE FLAT SURFACES, AND IN HIGHLY-FINISHED EXAMPLES THE MIDDLE SURFACE IS SLIGHTLY RAISED. GRIP BETWEEN THE BLADES NARROWED AND WRAPPED WITH CLOTH OR LEATHER."

Toward the base of this totem pole model (directly under the Smithsonian catalogue number), is the word/name "Ebits" (the S is backwards). This name is probably a reference to the Tlingit man named Chief Ebbets (a.k.a. Ebbetts, Ebitts ... ) (1780 - 1880) and his wife Aanseet (Chief of All Women) (1800-1870). This model pole resembles the full size Tongass pole, carved circa 1870 to honor Aanseet, and taken from Tongass in 1899 and erected in Pioneer Square in Seattle. (For information on the pole in Seattle see http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/loc/id/1357; http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=People-of-the-North&cat=Native-Lives-and-Traditions&viewpost=2&ContentId=2659; and Robin K. Wright: Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast, http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/wright.html ).