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 1980."

Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies baskets E222033-0 and E222034-0 as berry baskets collected (probably purchased?) in Victoria, B.C.. Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card for E222034-0 attribute basket to Southeast Alaska. In a letter of July 16, 1903 from Sitka, Alaska filed in accession file 41512, Emmons mentions two baskets that may be E222033-0 and E222034-0. He mentions that he is sending two very old Chilkat berry baskets to the Smithsonian.

FROM CARD: "SHOULDER BLANKET, CHILKAT INDIANS (SUBDIVISION OF TLINGIT.) CONSISTS OF CONVENTIONALIZED WEAVING OF YARNS OF WOOL OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND CEDAR BARK; DYED IN COLORS: YELLOW, BLACK AND GREEN, WITH SEPARATOR STRIPES IN NATURAL WHITE. DESIGN PATTERN DIVIDED INTO THREE FIELDS; CENTRAL WITH ANIMAL HEAD, AND TWO LATERAL PANELS (SEE BOAS, "PRIMITIVE ART, PP. 257-262). RECTANGULAR, WITH FLAT V-SHAPE FRINGED BOTTOM. ACQUIRED BY DONOR'S MOTHER IN ALASKA ABOUT 1900."

No catalog card found in card fileAnthropology Catalogue ledger book identifies this as a model of E45970 made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes. Original is from Chilkat Tlingit from Southeast Alaska.

From label in Swan's hand glued to artifact: "97 Combination dance carving illustrating ancient myth. Chilkat Indians, Alaska. J. G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. Dec. 1884."Listed on page 45 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: "CUT FROM THE SOLID (BURL). CARVED TO REPRESENT THE FROG. CLOUD HAT CYLINDER MISSING. TRACES OF GREEN PAINT ONLY REMAIN. NEG. NO. 43,227-B (FRONT). 43,227-(PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE), 43,227-A (BOTTOM). LOANED: OSAKA EXPO-70 JULY 69 - JAN. 71. RETURNED TO COLLECTION DECEMBER 7, 1970." See apparently associated object E60216. December 1881 list in accession file lists the frog helmet as being accompanied by a neck shield.Per Repatriation Office research, as reported in the Tlingit case report (Hollinger et al. 2005), in 1881 John J. McLean purchased this helmet from the Northwest Trading Company at an unknown location in Southeastern Alaska. Evidence supports a cultural affiliation between the Frog House of the Gaana xteidí clan of Klukwan.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.

FROM CARD: "CARVED. WORN BY MEDICINE-MAN. 6 PENDANTS ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; PL. 9; P. 768."List in accession file identifies #s 34 (E168370), 35 (E168371), and 36 (E168372) as "Bone necklaces worn by medicine men when practicing about the sick." The heading above the listing for #33 (E168369) 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.)

Catalogue card indicates "Exchange - Lt. G. T. Emmons, USN, Princeton, New Jersey, Ja. 12, 1906." However, there is still an object in the collections with this number.