FROM CARD: "THIS THE COMMON TYPE OF TLINKIT DUGOUT CANOE, CALLED IN TLINKIT: SITC, IN YAKUTAT: SPRUCE. THE SLIGHTLY LOWER END IS THE PROW, EVEN THOUGH THE ANGLE OF EACH IS NEARLY THE SAME. HAS THREE THWARTS*, PAINTED RED AND BLACK INSIDE. *A FOURTH ONE IS MISSING."

FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S NO. 168354 FISH-KNIFE. (YAKUTAT)."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 17 on list) appears to attribute this to the Yakutat Tlingit of Yakutat. List identifies this object as a "Woman's fish knife ... consisting of an iron blade set in a wooden handle, used by women to split and cut fish (halibut and salmon) for sun drying and curing for winter use."

FROM CARD: "CURVED. USED IN HOLLOWING OUT BOATS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1897; FIG. 9; P. 737."In American Anthropologist, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 190 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/658453?seq=4), D. W. Prentiss, Jr. appears to describe a knife like this in use to hollow boats and dishes during his visit to Yakutat Bay, Alaska in 1895. Prentiss had served as an assistant to Dr. Frederick William True, travelling to the Pribilof Islands for research on the summer 1895 voyage of the U.S.S. Albatross, whose return voyage stopped at Yakutat Bay.