FROM CARD: "LOAN. R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM DEC. 31, 1964. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 12 RIGHT, PG. 217." Handbook caption identifies as a fighting knife, Northern Northwest Coast-style dagger, "The blade has a midline ridge on one surface; the other is concave. The carved wooden haft is wrapped in heavy twine. The crest is a bear, inlaid with abalone." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABLE WITH CARD: "DAGGER.---DOUBLE-EDGED STEEL BLADE, VERY THICK DOWN THE MIDDLE AND BECOMING THINNER TOWARD THE EDGES. HANDLE OF WOOD, WITH A BEAR'S HEAD INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL, CARVED ON THE END. THE HANDLE IS WRAPPED WITH CORD AND HAS ATTACHED A STRIP OF LEATHER WITH A SLIT CUT NEAR THE END, THROUGH WHICH THE MIDDLE FINGER IS PLACED AND THE LEATHER THEN TWISTED ABOUT THE WRIST, THUS SECURING THE WEAPON FIRM IN THE HAND, SO THAT THE WARRIOR NEVER LOOSES HIS DAGGER UNTIL DEATH. LENGTH OF BLADE, 19 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH OF BLADE, 11 1/2 INCHES. KOOTZNAHOO INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), 60,189. ADMIRALTY ISLAND, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JOHN J. MCLEAN."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=128 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Clan knife or dagger, TlingitSee Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on a different dagger which in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=380 , retrieved 2-13-2022. It has this information on single-bladed daggers: Tlingit men wore the gwal.aa, or single-bladed dagger, in a sheath around the neck. The handle was carved to represent clan crests ... . The single-bladed dagger was a later type than the two-ended war knife and was not necessarily used for battle, but for personal defense.

FROM CARD: "10/5/66: THE BOWL OF THIS LADLE IS MISSING. GEP. 7/26/67: THIS LADLE IS NOW ASSEMBLED EXCEPT FOR ONE SMALL PIECE. GEP."

FROM CARD: "60145-48. 60146 SPOON IN SHAPE OF KILLER-WHALE."Listed on page 42 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: "PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH BEARS TEETH."

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."

Accession file identifies original #94, Catalogue No. E20881, as a canoe bailer from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people]. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Admiralty Island, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "60145-48. 60147: LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. 60147 ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 267, P. 206. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Identified in Crossroads as a soapberry spoon. "The soapberry, native to the dryer parts of the coast and interior plateau, can be whipped in water to a stiff pink froth, considered a delicacy and prized for feasts. The carved design on this paddle like spoon for eating the froth represents a fish, probably a salmon. A tiny human face on the back of the head may be Salmon Boy, who was taken away by the salmon and who returned to teach humans how to properly treat the fish so that they would return each year to benefit mankind."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, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=590 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Soapberry spoon Soapberries are a prized feast food, traditionally acquired from Athabascan trading partners. Dried berries are whipped with water to make red foam and eaten with carved hardwood spoons. This spoon has a spine-like design along the handle, along with a bird's head pointing toward the end, and a spirit face on the back of the bowl.