From card: "Represents a bird's head; gray slate, blackened with plumbago."Note: the term "plumbago" has been used for a variety of substances. In the past it was often used as the common term for the mineral graphite, which may be its meaning here.

Dall's original/field number is not listed for this object in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book. It is possible that this piece is original # 1167, which is listed in Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, and described there as stone charm, Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave.

FROM CARD: "DUPLICATED IN 1898 BY #178981."

FROM CARD: "GLEN IS. MUS. N. Y. ."

From card: "Carved and painted (much decayed)."

The object name for catalog numbers E20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (E20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.On exhibit in NMNH Sant Ocean Hall. 2014 exhibit caption identifies this as salmon-boy carving, Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "CUT ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO BY EHKAS. 6/14/45: REPAIRED AND RESTORED BY THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY, IN THE PROCESS ABOUT 2 FEET OF THE BACK END HAD TO BE CUT AWAY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO BADLY DECAYED TO PRESERVE, BUT THIS PART HAD ONLY A MINIMUM OF CARVING ON IT, MOSTLY JUST CONTINUATION OF THE FEATHERS."Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit crow or raven figure appears to originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.

FROM CARD: "CRUDELY CARVED OF CEDAR WOOD, ONE FIGURE ON TOP OF OTHER. LOWER ONE A SEATED HUMAN FIGURE WITH A FACE CARVED ON THE BACK OF ITS HEAD, UPPER ONE STANDING ON TOP OF THE LOWER HOLDING A LIZARD-LIKE ANIMAL IN FRONT OF ITS TORSO, HAS A CROWN WITH UPSTANDING ELEMENTS."