CATALOG CARD SAYS SENT AS A GIFT TO CHARLESTON MUSEUM, CHARLESTON, S.C., NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEP 1989.

FROM CARD: "WOODEN HANDLE CARVED IN SHAPE OF ANIMAL HEAD. ONE ABALONE SHELL INLAY REMAINS IN MOUTH. COPPER PLATE INSERTED AT END OF TANG, EXTENDING OVER PART OF LOWER BLADE. BLADE OF IRON."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 Hoonyah. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.

Listed on page 42 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 CARD: "75 CTS.."Linda Wynne, Virginia Oliver, and Alan Zuboff made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The community members have heard of a moon totem, but question whether this object is actually Tlingit.

This game is described on p. 243 of "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. Culin identifies it there as stick game.Anthropology catalogue ledger book and accession record identify the locality as Chilkhat, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "CARVED. WORN BY MEDICINE MAN."This object is #33 in the list in the accession file. The list identifies it as "Ornamentally carved bones (2) worn around the neck of a Doctor as charms when practicing about the sick." The heading above this listing for #33 says: "These three pieces [which is presumed to apply to #33, 34, and 35]were brought by the Chilkaht Indian traders + packers from the Gunannao? [word hard to read] people who live about the headwaters of the Yukon River." The museum cataloguer has interpreted Gunannao to be Gonaho, i.e. Gunahoo/Gunaaxoo or the Dry Bay Tlingit, and has listed that designation for E168369 - E168373. It may be instead that this is a version of the word Gunana, i.e. Athabaskan (including Tutchone, Tagish ...), as the Chilkat traded with them. The Yukon River location seems to support this, as that would apply to the Athabaskans, not the Gunaaxoo Tlingit. (See p. 57 in Emmons, George Thornton, and Frederica De Laguna. 1991. The Tlingit Indians. Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 70. Seattle: University of Washington Press.)

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID, CARVED TO REPRESENT THE BEAVER, PAINTED, AND PEGGED WITH TUFTS OF HUMAN HAIR ON CREST. INCISOR TEETH, TWO UPPER AND TWO LOWER, OF BRASS. TROUGHSCUT FOR REMAINDER OF TEETH NOW EMPTY. PAINTED GREEN OVER ALL, EXCEPT EYEBALLS, BLACK; EYE-BROWS, BLACK; NOSTRILS, RED; LIPS, BLACK. (RESTORED SECTION OF CHEEK SECURED WITH PEGS) NEG. NO. 43,227-E (FRONT). 43,227-F (PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE)."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.