FROM CARD: " 'WOMAN'S AWL'."List in accession file (this object is # 30 on list) identifies as "Woman's awl ... used in sewing skins, a sea lions penis bone. List in accession file does not attribute this object to the Chilkat, though the old tag with the artifact does.

Listed on page 48 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)".

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: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1894; FIG. 59; P. 676."

Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?Listed on page 49 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: "Includes roots and stems of spruce and cedar in all stages of preparation; shell and metal knives; horn and bone awls; dyes; fish skin; and woman's work basket."Listed on page 48 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)".

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S. SEWING. IVORY HANDLE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 12 on list) appears to attribute this to the Sitka Tlingit of Sitka. List identifies as "Woman's awl ... Handle of ivory and pricker of steel. This awl is used by the women in all sewing of skins, furs ... the hole is made with the awl and the pointed thread is stuck through."Listed on page 48 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)".