Collection of the Portland Art Museum.

Gift of Frederic B. Pratt

1 arrow from this set is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.List in accession file indicates collection was purchased by McLean in Sitka in 1884 and includes "3. Bows and 8 arrows complete from Yakutat" which seems to refer to E75453 - 5.From card: "[Bow] 75454 (Tlingit) and 75455 (Tinne) [i.e. Athabascan] illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 26, figs. 109, 155; p. 286. [Publication caption identifies bow 75454 as Tlingit type; narrow.] An arrow, # 75454 was lent to the Crossroads of Continents exhibit, Sept., 1988, as # 16407 (by mistake). Hence the object illustrated in the Crossroads catalog as # 16407 [Fig. 76 on p. 73] is actually # 75454. The mistake was discovered when the loan returned Jan. 21, 1993. (S. Crawford, 2-23-93)." Identified in Crossroads catalogue caption as "Harpoon arrow for sea otters."One arrow appears in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell. The entry on this arrow in the website http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=616 , retrieved 12-30-2011, is the source of the information below: Sea otter arrow, Tlingit, Yakutat, Alaska. Fleets of canoes cruised the coast to find sea otters, encircling one when it was found. Hunters pierced it with the barbed tips of harpoon-arrows, which then dislodged from the shafts, leaving them to trail behind on sinew cords. Otters were depleted in most of southeast Alaska by 1825, but hunting continued at Lituya Bay, Yakutat, and Icy Bay until the early twentieth century. This arrow has a willow shaft and barbed bone tip. Length 123 cm..

Objects are from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1166.

From Card: "Cylindrical telescopic"

Provenience note: E130624 - 6 were all collected in the summer of 1888 on the cruise of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross to Alaska. The list of collections in the accession file identifies Original # 2016 (Catalogue # E130624) as collected at Yakutat Bay, Alaska. Yakutat was assumed by the Smithsonian cataloguer to also probably apply to E130625, original # 2017, however it is unclear from the accession list if that is indeed the case.

Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1159.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM ONE PIECE OF WOOD, A SEA OTTER HUNTING CANOE WITH THE FULLY CONCAVE LINE TO THE PROW. EXTERIOR PAINTED BLACK ON LOWER HAFT AND RED ABOVE, THREE RED LINES ACROSS THE INTERIOR. 11/1963 - DR. F. DE LAGUNA. 11/1963 A SECTION OF THE RIGHT SIDE AT THE PROW END HAS BEEN BROKEN OFF.*-R. ELDER."

From card: "Twined, with decorative overlay."Basket was purchased by Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6156. See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .A small label, presumably from Grace Nicholson, is glued inside rim of basket: "6156 Yakutat."