Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 608, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "THIS THE COMMON TYPE OF TLINKIT DUGOUT CANOE, CALLED IN TLINKIT: SITC, IN YAKUTAT: SPRUCE. THE SLIGHTLY LOWER END IS THE PROW, EVEN THOUGH THE ANGLE OF EACH IS NEARLY THE SAME. HAS THREE THWARTS*, PAINTED RED AND BLACK INSIDE. *A FOURTH ONE IS MISSING."

FROM CARD: "WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "16220 FROM: PAGE 55, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 36. CARVED BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED LENGTH: 7 3/4 TLINGIT, SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY W. H. DALL IN 1874. 16,220."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 604, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 601, identifies this as "Doll dressed by Sitka Indians (originally a halibut buoy carved to represent a seal...) Sitka, [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford."

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.

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 616, collector is M. Baker and William Healy Dall. Object is described in accession list as "Shaman's cap, trimmed with seal teeth, Sitka Thlinkets."

FROM CARD: "CENTER IS A CONCAVE CIRCULAR HOLLOW, SURROUNDED BY A WIDE RISING BORDER, CARVED AT THE ENDS INTO THE HEAD AND TAIL OF A SEAL. (PART OF TAIL IS CHIPPED). THE CENTER AND THE BORDER ARE EACH INCISED WITH THREE LINES, THE TWO OUTER ONES OF WHICH ARE INLAID WITH SMALL OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BEADS. THE TECHNIQUE OF THIS ITEM APPEARS TO INDICATE ESKIMO AND/ OR ALEUT INFLUENCE. (GEO. PHEBUS.) REFER TO: HENRY COLLINS ETC.: "THE ART OF THE FAR NORTH", NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. WASH., D.C. 1972, CAT. NO. 218. 16,262 12/72 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 5/73 RETURNED."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=516, retrieved 9-2-2012: Bowl. ciquq "bowl" - Language: Chugach Sugpiaq (Prince William Sound dialect) Though collected in Sitka, Alaska, and identified as possibly Tlingit, Aron Crowell identifies this object as Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), probably from Prince William Sound, Alaska. Sugpiaq men ate from round and animal-shaped dishes. This bowl represents a swimming seal, its head and tail just above the ocean surface. Ripples from its motion encircle the rim and spread out from the red-painted central hole, which may depict the swirl of water left by a diving seal. In Sugpiaq and Yup'ik art, circles represent passageways between levels of the multi-layered cosmos, and between upper and lower levels of the sky and sea. White trade beads accent the design.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Object appears to be the one published as Fig. 30, p. 393 in Boas, Franz, and George Hunt. 1897. The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. Washington: G.P.O. (U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1895, pp. 331-738.)