Bone carved to represent a whale and decorated with abalone inlay and incised formline designs.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, listed as number E9813B, http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=508, retrieved 4-24-2012: Amulet, Tsimshian. A shaman's amulets represented the guardian spirits that aided his work. Like his wooden rattles, crown of bear claws, dance apron, and red ocher face paint, bone and stone amulets were essential to his practice. This beautifully carved example represents a killer whale; its tail is a long-beaked bird.

FROM CARD: "NO. 2790 ILLUS. IN SMITHSONIAN REPT, 1893; PL. 50; FIG. 7; P. 679. 8/17/66: INVENTORIED."These objects are Peale # 132. Peale numbers 132 - 134 are described as "Bows and arrows used by the natives of the northwest coast of America, near Fort Simpson, presented by the officers of the Hon. Hudson Bay Comp [Hudson's Bay Company]."Bow and 7 arrows.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XX, FIGS. 46, P. 185." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL MASK.---MADE OF WOOD; OUTLINES IN RED AND BLACK PAINT. BITS OF BUFFALO PELT SERVE AS EYEBROWS. LABRET SET IN LOWER LIP. WORN IN DANCES. LENGTH, 10 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 9 1/2 INCHES. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (TSIMSHIAN STOCK), FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 20,581. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THE CUSTOM OF WEARING A LABRET IN A SLIT CUT IN THE LOWER LIP PREVAILS AMONG THE WOMEN OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. IT IS A TOKEN OF RANK AND SOCIAL POSITION. THE LABRETS ARE GENERALLY MADE OF WOOD, IVORY, OR BONE, AND VARY IN SIZE FROM FOUR INCHES LONG BY THREE INCHES BROAD DOWN TO THE PROPORTIONS OF A SMALL SLEEVE BUTTON. THE CUSTOM IS FAST DYING OUT."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Roll of native woven s[t]uff covered with windings of bark cord in two shades forming triangular figures. Pendant band of cords at the back."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=666, retrieved 3-31-2012: Neck Ring. Tsimshian celebrants danced in cedar-bark rings, imitating the dress and actions of beings who were described in the origin story of each secret society. Bark rings were hung outside on the houses where ceremonies were in progress, to warn away the uninitiated. This ring consists of several crossed layers of twisted bark cord wrapped around wool; the sash is made of twisted bark cords, each ending in a knot and tassel.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD, IN TWO SECTIONS, TIED TOGETHER AT THE EDGES AND PINNED AT THE HANDLE. DESIGN, A BIRD WITH OPEN WINGS. ONE ITS BREAST A CARVED MASK. ON THE BACK IS A HUMAN FIGURE IN RELIEF WITH A FROG ON HIS BREAST. EATING HIS TONGUE. THE TAIL OF THE BIRD REPRESENTS THE HEAD AND BEAK OF A BIRD. PAINTED RED, GREEN AND BLACK. USED IN THEIR RELIGIOUS DANCES."

FROM CARD: "PROBABLY A CHILKAT DANCE LEGGING HAVING STANDARD CHILKAT MOTIFS AND BORDERED BY FRINGED LEATHER. SOME REPAIRS - FRAGILE - REMNANTS OF PUFFIN BEAK ATTACHMENTS. ILLUS.: THE SPIRT SINGS CATALOGUE; GLENBOW-ALBERTA INSTITUTE; 1987, #N17, P. 136. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987; LOAN RETURNED." Illus. in Fig. F, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Illus. Fig. 5, p. 46 in Pasco, Katie, 1997, "The Tsimshian Connection in Weaving the Painted Formline," American Indian Art Magazine, 22(2):44-51. Attributed there as Tsimshian, early nineteenth century. Mountain goat wool, yellow-cedar bark, leather, porcupine quills, yellow, black and green dye.

FROM CARD: "HANDLE CARVED. 4/18/67: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 12/13/67: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. 4/17/67: 2 HOLES."