FROM CARD: "FOR THE FACE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 26 on list) appears to attribute this to the HoonahTlingit of "Khart-heene"? [speculatively, possibly a version of one of the place names Karheen???] List also identifies object as "Pattern sticks or stencils for marking face for festival or ceremonial occasions ... the stick is laid on the face and the color is applied around it."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)".

Per Anthropology Catalogue ledger book, this is a model made in the Anthropology Lab for exhibit purposes of Catalogue No. E60120. Original identified as Hoonah and Hutsnuwu Tlingit, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "60104-6. 3 1/2" SPECIMEN [presumed to be # 60106?] RECOVERED FROM AN 8' DEPTH NEAR THE NW TRADING CO'S POST AT CHILCOOT, PORTAGE BAY, S.E. ALASKA. 60106 R.B.I., P.72." List in accession file dated December 1881 indicates the 3 1/2" adze had been found by G[eorge] Dickinson, the Northwest Trading Company's agent, while digging a well.

From card: "Hammered from coins. Chased in modern design (fish)." Per Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, these are made from silver half dollar coins. She also indicates that E153360A and B are almost identical and are decorated with dogfish with the face at the center and the body split to either side; E153360C is decorated with a design of two salmon with their heads meeting at the center and the bodies to the sides. E153360B is illus. Fig. 18, p. 47 and E153360C is illus. Fig. 17, p. 47, and all 3 are also described p. 72 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. See: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah. 1885. Alaska. Its southern coast and the Sitkan Archipelago. Boston Mass: D. Lothrop & Co. (a collection of the travel letters Scidmore wrote for newspapers during her Alaska trips of 1883 and1884). On pp. 128-9 of this publication, Scidmore describes a Hoonah silversmith at work. Bunn-Marcuse quotes a section on p. 47 of Precious Metals.

From card: "Wooden staff of Indian doctor used in incantations."E60210 and E60211 are both catalogued as doctor's staffs. There are 2 entries in the list in the accession file that appear to describe these objects. One entry lists "1 carved, long staff, Doctors, [from] Kootzahoo (i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit). The other entry lists "1 medicine stick, long, [from] Hoonia" (i.e. Hoonah). Unfortunately, it is unclear which description applies to which staff, though it can be speculated that the carved staff may be E60210?

FROM CARD: "LOANED TO THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1971. RETURNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 2-9-72. REPAIRED AND RESTORED AT CONSERVATION 8/15/72. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.387, P.281. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=127 , retrieved 11-28-2011: Chest This clan leader's chest - a bentwood box to hold clan regalia and crest objects - is decorated with operculum shells on the lid and base; these shells are the "trapdoor" pieces from red turban sea snails. Red paint used on the chest was probably hematite, ocher, or cinnabar mixed with grease and crushed salmon eggs. The central carving is a brown bear peering out of the entrance of its cave in spring; the large teeth and nostrils are distinguishing marks of this animal. Carvings of eagles flank the bear on each side, recognizable by their hooked beaks, wings, tails, and curved talons. "Here's the bear looking through his hole. In the fall time they close up their dens with a bunch of sticks and branches. Before he comes out, he looks out that opening, and that's what this represents." - Donald Gregory (Tlingit), 2005.