FROM CARD: "CUT OUT OF LIGHT YELLOW WOOD, ELABORATELY CARVED AND FANCIFULLY PAINTED. REPRESENTS THE DUCK (THE BODY FORMING THE RATTLE BOX) WITH THE MEDICINE-MAN (SHAMAN) ON ITS BACK. THE DUCK'S TAIL IS NEARLY UPRIGHT AND IS CARVED TO REPRESENT A GROTESQUE FACE, WITH A LONG BILL EXTENDING TO THE SHAMAN'S MOUTH, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE SUCKING POISON THERE FROM; ON THIS BILL ARE TWO SMALL FROGS. THE HANDLE EXTENDS FROM THE REAR PART OF THE DUCKS BODY. LENGTH, 12 1/2 INCHES. NO. ON PRINTED LABEL 1,138 AN ERROR."

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.No catalog card found in card file

Object is from Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1162.

FROM CARD: "WIDE, TRUNCATED CONE SHAPED, OF CEDAR BARK, IN TWILLED TWINED WEAVING, (MODIFIED). NATURAL COLOR, HEADBAND INSIDE AND COTTON CLOTH TIES. VERY FINE TIGHT WEAVING, IN FINE CONDITION. (11/1963)."Object is a woman's hat from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1168.Alan Zuboff, an elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This object is a working hat and would not be used as at.oow (clan property).

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, WITH THREE THWARTS, PAINTED RED INSIDE, AND BLACK AROUND THE CENTER 3/4 OF THE OUTSIDE. HAS THE TYPICAL CONCAVE PROW LINE OF THE BOATS OF THESE INDIANS. THIS IS A SEA-OTTER HUNTING CANOE. INFORMATION FROM: DR. F. DE LAGUNA. 11/1963."

FROM CARD: "16290-91. #16290 - #16291 - COMMON FORM."

FROM CARD: "16395-6. NOS. 16395-6: ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; PL. 23, FIGS. 4,5; P. 1056."There appears to be some kind of cataloguing error with this object. Ledger book and catalogue card call this Sitka, however it was published in USNM Annual Report for 1896 as Aleutian Islands, and original list in accession record also identifies it that way, with same provenance as toy lamp A16061. See Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 893.

Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1158.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD IN THE FORM OF A BIRD PAINTED GREEN AND RED AND WITH BRASS HEADED NAILS FOR EYES."Appears to be in form of a chicken? Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1152.