FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL. SAYERS. ILLUS. FIG.115, P.109 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PEN. PRESS, 1989. 1. EX. LEIDEN MUS. MAY /99. EX. GLEN IS. MUS., 11/95. EXCHANGE FOR MODEL COSTUMES KIOTO GIRLS' HIGHER NORMAL SCHOOL KIOTO, JAPAN APRIL 12, 1905. EXCHANGE FOR AWARD-MISS MARY H. CORBETT U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 20, 1906. EXCHANGE: MRS. J. G. SAYERS 110 MARYLAND AVENUE 4/10/1897. WASHINGTON, D.C."

FROM CARD: "CARVED BONES."List in accession file (this object is # 37 on list) identifies this object as "Pair of bone earrings carved as eagles." As of 1970's inventory, only one object with this number has been located. The heading above the listing for #33 (E168369) in the accession file says: "These three pieces [which is presumed to apply to #33, 34, and 35] were brought by the Chilkaht Indian traders + packers from the Gunannao? [word hard to read] people who live about the headwaters of the Yukon River." The museum cataloguer has interpreted Gunannao to be Gonaho, i.e. Gunahoo/Gunaaxoo or the Dry Bay Tlingit, and has listed that designation for E168369 - E168373. It may be instead that this is a version of the word Gunana, i.e. Athabaskan (including Tutchone, Tagish ...), as the Chilkat traded with them. The Yukon River location seems to support this, as that would apply to the Athabaskans, not the Gunaaxoo Tlingit. (See p. 57 in Emmons, George Thornton, and Frederica De Laguna. 1991. The Tlingit Indians. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 70. Seattle: University of Washington Press.) Though the museum cataloguer presumed that E168373 had the same provenance as E168369 - E168371, examination of the original list in the accession file calls that into question.Listed on page 47 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: "BASKET. 1 GIFT TO ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INSTITUTE, FEB. 14, 1903. ONE-EXCHANGE-MR. G. D. E. SCHMELTZ LEIDEN MUSEUM, LEIDEN HOLLAND. MAY 1899."

THIS BOAT IS DIV. OF ENGINEERING #76314. WHEN IT CAME TO ANTHROPOLOGY FROM ENGINEERING IT APPEARS NEVER TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN AN ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOG NUMBER. AFTER CONSERVATION TREATMENT, IT WAS CALLED C1296. HOWEVER, IT HAS #760353 (OR 160353) PAINTED ON IT. AS 160353 IS AN UNUSED NUMBER IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY BOAT SERIES, THIS BOAT HAS BEEN CALLED THIS NUMBER FOR NOW TO IDENTIFY IT. - F. PICKERING AND A. THOMSON 9-30-1998. FROM COLLINS' SMITHSONIAN BOAT COLLECTION MS. P. 896: "USED BY THE INDIANS OF SOUTHERN ALASKA. FULL SIZE. AN OPEN, ROUND BOTTOM, KEELESS, DUGOUT CANOE; FLARING SIDES; SHARP HOLLOW RAKING ENDS, PROJECTING UPWARDS; MODERATE SHEER, BROKEN BY REFLEX CURVE AT ENDS; PAINTED BLACK WITH EXCEPTION OF RED AND WHITE TRANSVERSE STRIPES NEAR EXTREME ENDS. PLACE FOR MAST NEAR BOW." ACCESSION RECORD DESCRIBES IT AS "MEDIUM RIGED DUGOUT PAINTED BLACK." ACCESSION RECORD INDICATES IT WAS ONE OF TWO CANOES COLLECTED BY LT. GEORGE THORNTON EMMONS U.S.N., IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA, FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S EXHIBITION (INTERIOR DEPARTMENT'S ALASKA DISPLAY) AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, 1893. THE OTHER CANOE IS # 168115. COLLECTION DATE FOR CANOE 160353 IS PRESUMED TO BE CA. 1891 OR BEFORE, AS IT WAS FOR 168115. COMPUTER CATALOG DATA RECORD CREATED BASED ON ACCESSION RECORD, COLLINS MS. AND RECORD FOR BOAT #168115.No catalog card was made for this object.