FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK DYED RED ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 18, FIG. 67-9, P. 270." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "NECKLACE.---ROPE OF TWISTED CEDAR BARK, DYED RED, MADE INTO A COLLAR, WITH ENDS BOUND TOGETHER AND FRAYED OUT. USED IN DANCING BY SITKA INDIANS. LENGTH, 23 INS. DIAM. OF ROPE, 1 1/4 INS. FT. WRANGEL, ALASKA, 1875. 20,910. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD E20849: "HEADDRESSES.---MADE OF CEDAR BARK ROPE, STAINED RED WITH THE JUICE OF THE ALDER. WORN IN THE WINTER CEREMONIAL DANCES OF THE KWAKIUTL AND OTHER SOUTHERN COAST INDIANS. HOODSINOO INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN FAMILY), ADMIRALTY ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,849, 20,910. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THIS STYLE IS BORROWED BY THE NORTHERN INDIANS AND WORN BY THEM IN THEIR CEREMONIALS, BUT NOT WITH THE SAME SIGNIFICANCE AS IN THE SOUTH."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20849, 20850 and 20910 as original number 70, and lists as Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit], Admiralty Island, Alaska. List in accession file identifies no people or locality for original # 70. The old exhibit labels for E20910 have conflicting locality information, with one saying Admiralty Island, and the other Fort Wrangell. The catalogue card originally said Admiralty Island, but Fort Wrangell has been added later, presumably because of exhibit label? For now, locality in database has been listed as Admiralty Island. Note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a former number of 20910 for both 72701 and 72702 and says "Reentered to avoid confusion of nos." 72701 and 2 are listed as Fort Wrangell.

FROM CARD: "FROM BASKET (68) 20847."Basket E20847, identified as Hutsnuwu Tlingit from Admiralty Island, is Swan original # 68. Ledger book indicates that Catalogue #s E20906, E20907, and E20908 are also original # 68. Accession record entry indicates the basket # E20847 contained these toy spoons, dolls, and dish (E20906 - 8), therefore all these objects are being stored together as Tlingit for now. Note that E20906 had been first catalogued as Tsimshian (probably based on Ft. Simpson identification in Anthropology ledger book of paddles E20902 and 3).

From card: "For fighting bear. Double ended knife, grip wrapped with rawhide; blades corrugated, of steel and copper. Heirloom in the bear family Tag way ta, of the Hootz ah tai Kwan. Through many generations. In wooden case. Scabbard of hide. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 261. Loaned to the National Gallery of Art October 20, 1972. Returned 5-29-73. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 311, p. 232." Crossroads of Continents photo caption identifies: "The sculptured pommel ... is a split profile image of a sea-grizzly, inlaid with abalone shell."Per Repatriation Office research, as reported in the Tlingit case report (Hollinger et al. 2005), in 1903 Emmons purchased this dagger from a member of the Teikweidi clan in Killisnoo or Angoon, Alaska, with Angoon the more likely provenance. In a letter dated August 20, 1903 in the accession file, Emmons talks about this knife and says that it "... had come into the hands of a nephew of an old chief upon the death of the latter." He identifies it as ornamented to represent the bear, which he says is the totemic emb[lem] of the Teikweidi "family" (i.e. clan) of the Hootz ah tai Kwan/Hootz-[ah-tai]-qwan (i.e. Hutsnuwu Tlingit), living on Admiralty Island. The Admiralty Island location gives credence to the probable Angoon attribution.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=297 , retrieved 2-13-2022: Dagger, Tlingit.

Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists locality as Baranoff Island, Alaska.