Carved in the form of a baby bird with open mouth, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

FROM CARD: "WOVEN. LOAN: THE TEXTILE MUSEUM 4/30/1965."List in accession file includes "1. Chilcaht [i.e. Chilkat] cartridge case", which seems to refer to this object.Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This object has a design of a bird with wings. This is meant to be worn around the waist, and the top has been sewn shut.

FROM CARD: "THE LOOM IS A BAR SUPPORTED ON TWO LEGS - NO OTHER APPARATUS. THE WARPS ARE WHITE YARN AND FIGURES IN BLACK, BLUE AND YELLOW YARN ARE WORKED IN TWINED WEAVING PRECISELY AS IN MAKING BASKETRY. THE FIGURES ARE MYTHOLOGICAL. THE WEAVER IN THIS WORK CONTRARY TO OTHER AMERICAN EXAMPLES, HAD THE PATTERN NOT MERELY IN HER MIND BUT PAINTED ON A BOARD."See related objects 209963, 209581 and T15491. See also the accession file, which contains a diagram and description of the loom done by Emmons. In a letter dated February 24, 1900, filed in Accession 40238, Emmons talks about getting a Chilkat blanket in process and accessories to be used on exhibit at the Smithsonian: "I know that I can get this from a family far up the Chilkat River in the goat country ..." In letters dated 5 and 9 October, 1900, filed in Accession 37889, Emmons talks about visiting the Chilkat (Chilkoot?) mountains and collecting the blanket in process from the upper Chilkat village in the mountains.Per Haida artists Delores Churchill and Evelyn Vanderhoop, 2015, the blanket and associated separate bags of yarn include Haida made yarn and commercial yarn.

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: "OF SKIN. CONTAINING PAINT."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 27 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as "Small skin case containing native mineral? paint ... used to color the face on ceremonial occasions, applied by means of stencils."

From card: ""Used by the Indian doctor; representing a sea otter." This information was on the original tag, of the: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, Wash. where the item was purchased. Additional info. in Lab Acc. file. Loan: The Halcyon Foundation 4/17/64. Loan Returned 12/19/67."Note: as of 2010, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop tag is no longer present with the artifact.

From card: "Brittle; small section broken out; painted with characteristic designs in red, black, blue, and green." In a 1937 letter in the accession file, the donor notes that she purchased this "more than 30 years ago" and identifies it as from Sitka.