From card: "Wood finely carved. $10.00. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 26, fig. 113; p. 286. [Identified in this publication as a war spear.] Triangular bayonet point with scabbbard of wood. Attributed to Haida by Duff, Holm & Reid in Arts of the Raven, The Vancouver Art Gallery June - September, 1967 Item 434. 4/18/67: loaned to Vancouver Art Gall. 12/13/67 Returned by Vancouver. Loan: Crossroads; Loan returned: Jan 21, 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue, Fig. 312, p. 232." Identified in Crossroads catalogue photo caption as "Spear, Tlingit, carved like a totem pole with interlocked crest and mythical figures, this spear also served as a ceremonial staff."

From card: "Woven grass."Original label attached to artifact says "Lillie [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

Swan's list in the accession record indicates that this object, number 45 1/2 on the list, was collected at Masset, B.C. in July 1883 but he identifies this as "made at Chilkat Alaska."

Original label attached to artifact says "Agnes Dan [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

FROM CARD: "PAINTED MOSTLY RED AND BLUE."The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man standing on bear head with a balancing stick in each hand", and thus possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

As of 2010, this object appears to be missing some of its parts/incomplete. It currently consists only of a carved and painted flat wooden bird figure. Back of figure appears to be marked possibly "Sitka" and $2.00. The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man standing on bird" (though the figure of the man is not currently present). Accession record lists a price of $2.00 for that carving. Based on the Sitka locality, it is possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

Blanket 89193 is similar in design to the one Illus. Fig. 564a, p. 374, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907.Blanket robe woven of wool from mountain sheep and cedar bark fiber. The shape is pentagonal, with the bottom edge diverging from the rectangular form by dropping lower in the center, forming a chevron shape. The upper edge is bound by whip stitching a thin leather strip (0.5-0.8 cm wide) with brown fur attached so it makes a fur border. The two sides are finished with 10 cm long cotton fringe sewn to the sides. The bottom has a fringe (warp) of 50 cm long of natural off-white wool, with cedar bark fiber twisted with the fringes. In addition to the fringes and fur, the woven material has been finely finished with a natural off-white wool border reinforced on the sides with additional strands. The design is in dyed wool in black, yellow, and turquoise, along with natural off-white. The design has a central panel and two side panels, separated only by a thin off-white line, the whole framed by a double border of yellow on the inside and blank on the outside with thin lines of off-white and black to separate the border colors and the border from the design. There is a 20 cm long piece of red binding tape attached at one end at the back of the shawl and a tab where a second one apparently was attached earlier.Per artists Delores Churchill and Evelyn Vanderhoop, 2015, the side fringes were added later to this blanket and are not traditional.Alan Zuboff, Linda Wynne, Shgen George, weaver, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The blanket is Tlingit made and features a diving whale design. The diving whale design is not clan-specific, and so weavers did not need permission to use it, which allowed for widespread use. The Tsimshian started doing these designs first, and a Klukwan leader got ahold of one of these items, and his wife took it apart to figure out how it was made. This object may have been an early design later widely adopted by the Tlingit. The fur on this object may be sea otter or beaver, but it may be too short for sea otter. The side fringe is made of twine and discoloration of the fringe may be due to storage.

OCTOPUS BAG; FLORAL BEADWORK. FROM JAMES G. SWAN ORIGINAL TAG WITH ARTIFACT: "NO. 201 HAIDA INDIANS HUNTING POUCH. KULTL GEAR. SITKA INDIAN MANUFACTURE. SKIDEGATE, B.C. AUG. 30, 1883, JAMES G. SWAN, $1."Linda Wynne, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, Virginia Oliver, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This is an octopus bag, specifically used for hunting because of the strap. Florence noted that she made a bag similar to this one that took her over a month to complete, and wasn't as busy as this one with regards to the beadwork design. The bag has some large, size 10 beads, which were produced later on, and don't have the same good detail as smaller beads. Virginia commented that someone may have added beads to this bag after it was created in order to sell it. The button on this object could be a brass button taken from a military coat. This bag has double toes and was made with two needles, whereas beaders today usually use only one needle.

Basket has original label attached to artifact that says "Maggie Yeltatsi [presumably maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska. Deborah Ann Head, 6-3-2009, notes that Yeltatsi is a Haida last name, and Howkan is a Haida area.

From card: "Cedar bark woven."Original label attached to artifact says "Polly Skulka [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town. Skulka/Skultka is usually a Haida name.