FROM CARD: "FLAT CIRCULAR BASKETRY MAT."

699; TWINED CONICAL BASKET WITH FALSE EMBROIDERY. Stored Tlingit.

Old tag with artifact, in Swan's hand: "2 childs grease boxes, Stikine Indians, Fort Wrangel, Alaska."

BAE 1960; UNCATALOGUED BOTANICAL SPECIMENS FROM QUILEUTE INDIANS. Tags/labels with these various botanical specimens identify some as different types of grasses used as basketry materials. In addition, some plants are identified as medicinal, and some as edible. Native names are included for many of the plants.

FROM CARD: "IN SHAPE OF AN ANCIENT MEXICAN WAR CLUB WITH RAGGED EDGE. THE SIDES ARE CARVED TO REPRESENT A MARINE ANIMAL. MADE OF WHALE'S BONE. SEE ACC. PAPERS #38645. LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA 5/18/64." Loan returned 2012. Identified as Marine Mammal/Walrus bone, rather than whale, during preparation of affidavits on organic materials for Mexico loan return, 2011.Provenience note: Emmons purchased this object in Alaska in 1901. His initial letter to the Smithsonian listing it as for sale was written from Killisnoo, Alaska. The "Prince of Wales Island" locality on the catalogue card seems to be due to a misreading of information in a letter Emmons sent on the provenance of the object. In a letter dated September 30, 1901, which is filed in the accession file, Emmons writes: "It is from the 'Stickheen qwan' [Stikine] living about the mouth of the Stickheen [Stikine] River and Clarence Sts. [islands of Clarence Strait area?], South Eastern Alaska, of the 'Tlingit' people. It is called in Tlingit 'Khutse' and is of a very old type of which but a few pieces have ever been found. I have seen this character of club figure on an old grave (totem) post at the Henyah village of 'Tuck-she-kan' [Tuxekan?] on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island."

From card: "Of black slate, [tableau with] 4 figures seated on a base - man with hat, raven, 2 animal figures. Broken and repaired on one end, part of raven's beak missing."

From card: "Whale bone spatula shape; handle wrapped with braid of cedar bark fiber."From old handwritten tag with artifact: "679 (Chi-tulkth) Whalebone knife formerly used by natives in warfare. The first owner of this (pair) claims to have killed 5 members of a neighboring tribe with them in one conflict. S/- B/- Clayoquot, B.C."

List in accession file identifies this object as # 8, "Warrior. Chilcat. Interior. Alaska."