FROM CARD: "FLAT CIRCULAR BASKETRY MAT."

List in accession file identifies this object as # 8, "Warrior. Chilcat. Interior. Alaska."

FROM CARD: "CARVED STANDING WOODEN FIGURE; HANDS RAISED IN FRONT OF CHEST; UNPAINTED. REMAINS OF HAIR ON TOP OF HEAD. WEARING SKIN KILT WITH TINKLERS AND TWO CLOAKS PAINTED IN RED & BLACK TOTEMIC DESIGNS. NECKLACE OF CARVED BONE AND TEETH. WOODEN "POT-LATCH HAT" PAINTED IN RED AND BLACK ON HEAD."

FROM CARD: "BLANKET WOVEN IN TRADITIONAL STYLE FROM HAIR OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT, WITH TOTEMIC DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN COLOR EFFECTED BY USE OF NATIVE VEGETABLE AND MINERAL DYES, FROM THE CHILKAT INDIANS OF S.E. ALASKA. PURCHASED [in 1940 for the Smithsonian U.S. National Museum] BY MRS. WALCOTT FOR $225 FROM MRS. BELLE G. SIMPSON, NUGGET SHOP, JUNEAU, ALASKA. LOANED TO RENWICK 4/29/1982, RETURNED 6/1983. MATERIALS: MOUNTAIN-GOAT WOOL; CEDAR-BARK FIBER; BLACK, YELLOW AND BLUE-GREEN DYE." SEE CATALOGUE CARD FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

Shgen George, weaver, and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket has a commonly used diving whale design, but some of the details are unusual: side braids were never attached, some of the lines are too thick, some of the weaving is too tight, and there is black in some of the corners where there would normally be blue.

From card: "Two blocks of wood, one with a boss and the other a depression. The soft horn is pressed into shape between them."Emmons letter of April 17, 1901 in the accession file, lists as being part of this accession: "1 mould for spoon bowls of horn from Chilkat." It is unclear if Emmons means Chilkat the people or Chilkat the place (i.e. Klukwan?).Listed on page 50 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: "Model of # 127,613. Chilkat [Tlingit]. [For exhibit] L. P. Exposition, St. Louis, 1904." Card indicates manufactured in Anthropology Lab by C. R. Luscombe.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".