WOLF SHAPED FELT APPLIQUE PIN IN RED AND BLACK. WHITE BUTTON EYE.

FROM CARD: "REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME SUGGESTS THAT THIS IS THE CORRECT SPECIMEN FOR THIS CAT.#. OLD PHOTOS OF THE PHILA. EXPO. OF 1876 [Centennial Exposition] SHOW THIS HOUSE MODEL W/ENTRANCE POLE AND CEDAR BARK ROOF ON DISPLAY. TYPOLOGICALLY THIS HOUSE SEEMS MORE HAIDA LIKE AND ESPECIALLY WHEN CONSIDERING THE ENTRANCE POLE. INDIVIDUAL PARTS LETTERED A-F. 6/11/69 GP." PHOTO NEG. #6251 IS PHOTO OF TOTEM POLE MODEL ONLY. ON BACK OF TOTEM POLE MODEL/HOUSE FRONTAL POLE IS COLLECTOR'S PENCILLED DESCRIPTION WHICH APPEARS TO SAY: "LOWER FIGURE WASKO WOLF WITH YOUNG WOLF IN ITS MOUTH. 4 HUMAN FIGURES DOCTOR'S GUARDIAN IMAGES. UPPER FIGURE HOORTS - BEAR AND SUMMATION IS THE KOOT OR FISH EAGLE" - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, University of Washington, 4-12-2012, the house model is probably Tsimshian, based on the painting. In 2018, Robin Wright added: The model house does indeed look to be Tsimshian in style. But now that I'm looking closely at the pole that is associated with this number, the pole does not look Tsimshian, and in fact looks to be another version of the Haida flood pole. It is based on one of the 3 Haida flood poles, It depicts the story of the flood with a stack of hat rings. Raven rescued the village during a flood by pulling up on the chief's hat rings making it grow tall enough for the people to climb up out of the flood waters.A photo of what appears to be this house model on display at the Smithsonian circa 1879 (photo may actually date more specifically to 1882 - early 1885) is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID 2962 or MNH-2962, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 4, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8263 . House model is on back left of photo in front of house front.This house model is visible (on right side on top of cabinet) on display in a photograph taken at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Interior view, Department of the Interior exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring archeological and anthropological artifacts, prepared by Bureau of Indian Affairs and Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 64, Folder 01, Image No. SIA_000095_B64_F01_029. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_400427 .

FROM CARD: "FAMILY CREST OR TOTEM ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 19, FIG. 74, P. 272." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL VESTMENT.---MADE OF BLUE CLOTH. THE DESIGN REPRESENTS THE HALIBUT, WORKED ON IN RED CLOTH, EDGED WITH BEAD AND BUTTON TRIMMINGS. IT IS WORN PENDANT DOWN THE BACK. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), PORT SIMPSON, B. C. 20,679. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. WHILE THIS IS A MODERN GARMENT, IT SHOWS THE ARTISTIC SKILL OF THESE INDIANS IN WORKING UP EVERY ARTICLE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY INTO A TOTEMIC DESIGN."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=529, retrieved 4-24-2012: Button robe. In the traditional history "Explanation of the Beaver Hat," a group of Eagles flees the Copper River region after a war. During their voyage south, three young people are swallowed by a giant halibut. When the monster is killed and cut open, the bodies are found inside, as shown on this button robe design. One of the surviving men kills a beaver that has copper eyes, claws, ears, and teeth, which is why Beaver and Halibut both came to be crests of the Eagles and are often displayed on their regalia. This design is made of red trade cloth on blue wool, with white beads and shell buttons. "The Eagle clan came from Alaska down to British Columbia, and one of their canoes was upended by a monster halibut. This design shows the halibut and the people that it took." - David Boxley (Tsimshian), 2009

FROM CARD: "16253-6. NOS. 16253-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIGS. 231-5; P. 318."Anthropology's catalogue card and ledger book list the locality for E16253 - 6 as Nunivak Island, however this appears to be a cataloguing error. These artifacts are Dall original #s 1145 - 1148, and Dall's field catalogue, filed under accession no. 3258, identifies them this way: "Wooden utensils used like chopsticks, Chimsyan [sic] Indians, Main Land S. E. of Sitka."

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).

Object was catalogued in ledger book as a skirt (i.e. apron). "Skirt" was mistranscribed as "shirt" on typed catalogue card. - F. Pickering 7-26-2005