Small ivory head with carved features, red cotton dress.List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50.

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."Provenience uncertain. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies source of these boots as "Chilcot Indians." On the basis of that, it seems, culture in catalogue database has been listed as Tlingit, Chilkat? Note that an unknown person at an unknown time listed culture as Eskimo? on catalogue card.

FROM CARD: "CARVED IN-THE-ROUND: BEAR-SHAPED, WITH FRONT PAWS RESTING ON A FISH. PIPE BOWL OF BRASS." Fish is a salmon, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.Note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Sitka, not Chilkat. Source of Chilkat cultural ID on catalogue card is unknown, though it may be based on list in accession file? Current catalogue card appears to have been typed circa 1976?

FROM CARD: "MADE OF MOUNTAIN GOAT'S WOOL OVERLAID ON WARP OF TWISTED SPRUCE ROOT. VERY MUCH MOTH EATEN."

From card: "Twined weaving; totemic whale painted on the body. Raven head carved from wood and painted, afixed to top of hat." For small illustration (hat only, not the raven head carving) see Hat 107, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. Glinsmann identifies the hat as of Haida manufacture.Accession record 41512 calls this "Chilkat straw [sic] hat and raven's head", and also, more correctly, identifies it as a painted spruce root hat. See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several Emmons accessions. It appears to contain information about hat # E221177? It may be the hat referred to on a list at the end of that file as "Spruce root dance hat painted with wooden bird on top from Metlakatla, Annette Island [Alaska]."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=296 , retrieved 12-30-2011: Crest hat This woven spruce-root crest hat is topped with the wooden head of Raven, yet the design painted on the crown is the Killer Whale, a crest belonging to the Eagle moiety. The combination of symbols from opposing moieties on a single hat is rare. It might represent trade with the Haida, where this combination is allowed, or mockery of an unpaid Raven debt to social opposites. Even more rarely a child may be given permission to use a crest of his grandfather's clan, always of the opposite moiety, creating a mix of designs.Listed on page 41 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".From 2008 Anthropology Conservation Lab treatment report by Landis Smith: The hat is twined, left to right from the center of the top of the hat, and finished with a braided edge. The top of the hat and sides are woven in a plain twine; the wide brim is woven in a chevron design using a weft over double warp, alternating with weft over single warp. An interior head band was woven into the structure of the hat. This headband was trimmed along the bottom edge with a striped cotton cloth. There is another piece of multi-colored cloth sewn into the striped headband trim, and covers the top of the hat where the crown of a person's head would go. Red tradecloth (heavy flannel) ties are sewn to the interior head band to be tied under the chin. The neck and head of a raven is carved from what appears to be red cedar. The base of the neck is slightly convex to fit on top of the hat. There are pairs of holes visible on each side of the exterior of the base of the neck; these connect to two pairs of holes seen on the base of the carving. Lashings were drawn through these holes to secure the carving to the stop of the hat. The raven is open-beaked with a pronounced tongue, large black eyes and squared off ears: The raven head and neck are painted black with red flecking. The interior of the beak, tongue, nostrils and interiors of the ears are painted red. The eyes are black with white paint around them. There is a band of green across the base of the beak and around the eyes; this area is slightly recessed. There is a white, filled-in U shape on each cheek.

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID, STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL. REVERSE CUT VERTICALLY AT ONE INCH INTERVALS TO ONE QUARTER INCH DEPTH, FORMING NARROW GROOVES PERMITTING VISOR TO BE BENT CRESCENT SHAPE (NOW PERMANENT AND INFLEXIBLE). REVERSE ALSO EXCAVATED FOR NOSE CONFORMATION AND PERFORATED JUST BENEATH FOR BREATHING. SHALLOW CRESCENTS AT TOP IN FRONT OF EYES FOR VISION. PAINT COLORS: VERMILLION, TRACES OF GREEN. NEG. NO. 43,230 (FRONT). 43,230-A (PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE). 43,230-B (TOP)." See apparently associated object E60214. December 1881 list in accession file lists the frog helmet as being accompanied by a neck shield.McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonia. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.Alan Zuboff, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. In order to make this visor, the wood was soaked, not steamed. Typically wood is soaked for five days and then bent by hand to make an object like this.

In a letter dated August 12, 1902, from Chilkat [Klukwan?], Alaska, and filed in Accession 39826, Emmons notes that he is going to make up a complete tool box "for the man" (i.e. presumably for a male figure/exhibit mannequin, as the "Chilkat family group" of exhibit mannequins at one time included a carver.) In papers in Accession 40238, this tool set is identified as a set of tools used by a Tlingit wood carver in making dug out canoes, masks, etc.. In a letter of Nov. 24, 1902 in the accession file Emmons says: "These thirty odd pieces are just about an average of what any man's box would contain. ... These pieces are generally from Chilkat, but represent the working tools of a man of any of the Northern Tlingit tribes."

FROM CARD: "(MODELS) USED BY MEDICINE MAN. CARDS #45976-9 DESCRIBE CONTENTS OF BOX #3 CARD #45963."Card for E45963, catalogued as "Box With Medicine Man's Masks, Robe etc." indicates that "FOR CONTENTS OF THIS BOX SEE #45976-9."

FROM CARD: "1 MASS."This object is # 7 on McLean's list of objects in the accession file. He notes that this object was used as pigment to paint the face.