This object is probably the box described on the December 1881 list in the accession file as "1 small double, oblong compartment box for grease."

FROM CARD: "CARVED WITH HERALDIC DEVICES."List in accession record identifies as "#62 - 2 pieces of leather, carved in heraldic designs, from Koutznow Indians, Admiralty Island Chatham Strait, Alaska."

FROM CARD: "60136-40. [From 19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "HORN SPOONS. BOWLS, MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. IN SOME EXAMPLES THE HANDLES ARE MADE FROM THE HORN OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, IN CANADA, AND THROUGHOUT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE HORN OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP IS USED IN MAKING DOMESTIC UTENSILS. THE HORN OF THE GOAT ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO THE CARVER'S ART, AND BY THE TLINGIT INDIANS IS CARVED AND ENGRAVED TO REPRESENT TOTEMIC IDEAS."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1893 PL. 16 & 17; P. 642."

FROM CARD: "60156A,B*. "*TWO SPECIMENS WERE FOUND WITH THIS NUMBER; HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED A & B. 156A: ANIMAL-FORM BOWL; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. 60156A: LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. 60156A FROM: PAGE 36, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 5. ANIMAL-FORM BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA LENGTH: 15 1/2. TLINGIT, HUTSNUWU, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED AUGUST 23, 1882. 60,156-A."Identified by Joe Zuboff, Angoon Cultural Leader, 2014, as in the form of a seal (a seal on a rock); he also indicates it bears traces of paint.Listed on page 41 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".

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE, PAINTED RED AND BLACK. DESIGN: A HUMAN HEAD WITH A PROTRUDING TONGUE "USED IN THE SECRET SOCIETIES." (DR. BOAS). ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 209; P. 656 (HAIDA) ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 264. LEDGER LISTS PEOPLE AS "KOUTZNOW INDIANS," KOUTZNOW IS PROBABLY A VARIATION OF HUTSNUWU, A TLINGIT GROUP, SEE BAE BULLETIN 30.. 20,875 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 12B, PG. 250."Accession file identifies original #90, Catalogue Nos. E20874 - 75, as 2 war rattles. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies them as from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people, which was transcribed on the catalogue card as Kountznow's], Chatham Strait, Alaska. Prince of Wales Island has been written on the artifacts themselves by the museum cataloguer and added to the catalogue cards. For E20875, Prince of Wales Island has been crossed off the catalogue card and Kootznahoo Inlet has been written over the culture name. The catalogue entry on this object in "The Far North" exhibit catalogue, assumed the object was Tlingit, probably from Admiralty Island from the vicinity of Angoon, and identifies motif as bear.