May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."From card: "Round."

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OF 2 SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885.May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated they had a hat listed as old Smithsonian # 72443, Branly catalog number 71.1885.78.347. 72443 is not the correct number. It is possible this object is actually E72448, one of which is listed as having gone to the Trocadero Museum in 1885.

FROM CARD: "67891-2. NO. 67892 CAST. WORKINGMEN'S SCHOOL, N.Y., 11/30/95."Has hole for stringing. Appears to be in the form of a copper "shield."

From card: "Carved from the solid. Hardwood. Pained in green, vermillion and black. Hair tufts (now missing) inserted in a series of holes extending over apex of crown from ear to ear. Teeth, apparently of a white shell inserted in excavated trenches in upper and lower jaws. Illus. in USNM AR 1888, Pl. XIII, fig. 42, p. 270." Identified in the publication as a wooden helmet. Per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009, helmet is in form of a human with shark characteristics, including eyes with downturning outer corners, and gills, and back of helmet has carved shark formline imagery.Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Florence belives the owner of this helmet was Shark clan.

LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964. Loan returned 2012.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=591 , retrieved 11-28-2011: Neck Ring Ring of cedar bark rope adorned with two carved crests, Wolf and Eagle. Today, potlatch song leaders wear bark rings.