FROM CARD: "BRASS STUDS FOR EYES; FACE PAINTED BLUE; EYEBROWS, BLACK; MOUTH AND CARVED TEETH, RED. LEATHER TIES IN BACK. LEFT SIDE BROKEN; NATIVE MEND."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM CEDAR WOOD, BIRD AT END OF HANDLE."

From card: "Painted red on the inner surface and black on the outer. Carved from a single piece of wood. The grip is constricted, flaring out on each side and tapering towards the ends, each of which terminated in a good sized human mask, with real hair inserted." Illus. Fig. 376, p. 274 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there as a Tlingit shaman's bow. "Wands, batons, spears, daggers, and other items were used for display, carried in the hands by Tlingit chiefs and shamans on state occasions like potlatches and festivals. This oversized bow has a carved human head at each end, one singing and one talking. Similar paired faces were carved on shaman's headrests used during fasting (Wardwell 1978:87). Ceremonial bows were often made with matching arrows, and were sometimes used in curing ceremonies."

This object is catalogued as "Chilcat". An August 29, 1872 letter from Colyer in accession file has a listing for # "17 Coat of buckskin - from Copper River and the Youkon [a.k.a. Yukon], Alaska." It is possible that E11383 may be the coat this listing refers to?

FROM CARD: "BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 14 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as used for netting webbing of snow shoes.

FROM CARD: "BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file appears to attribute #s 19, 20, 21, 22?, 23 and 24 to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies all as scraping, skinning and dressing tools for hides/skins. This object is most likely #s 23 and 24 on the list.Listed on page 47 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: ""Chief's ceremonial eating bowl" Bowl carved to represent effigy of frog head and fish tail, also side fins".