FROM CARD: "OF FLAT COILS OF PLAITED CEDAR BARK."From old label attached to artifact: "Gorgets and Collar of Plaited Cedar Bark for Indian Doctor, Pr. Wales Is., Alaska J.G. Swan."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?

From card: "Worked from horn balancing on bowl."

From card: "Gambling Sticks in caribou case (double pocket) from Tahltan - the Tahltan people of the upper Stikine River where the Tahltan River joins it. Illus. in: Hndbook. of N. Amer. Indian, Vol. 6, Subarctic, Fig. 17, pg. 386." Identified as Tahltan in Handbook illustration caption.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=665, retrieved 8-23-2012: Gambling sticks and pouch, Tahltan Athabascan. Tahltan Athabascans played a traditional gambling game similar to that of their Tlingit neighbors, involving a trump stick and others shuffled beneath shredded cedar bark. This tanned caribou hide bag has a pocket at each end to hold the smooth wooden playing sticks, which are marked with black and red designs to designate their names and values. The bag is decorated with red flannel and glass beads and was made to hang over the shoulder.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Illus. Fig. 9.6, left, p. 151 in Yanicki, Gabriel & Ives, John. "Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. " In Prehistoric games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica, ed. Barbara Voorhies. University of Utah Press, 2017, 139 - 162.

TWINED BAG 2-3 FT LONG.

From card: "Inlaid with bone. Carved from fine black slate. Decoration two snakes in relief around border; edge flat inlaid with triangular pieces of bone. In concave of bowl running design of wheel and three leaves; circular area in bottom bordered with rope, middle area a sunburst set with triangles of bone. The work is like that on Wilkes and Gibbs pipes from Puget Sound and Vancouver I. Probably Russian influence. Specimen is old and good."

FROM CARD: "68014-7. IN SHAMAN'S BOX [# E68018]." Note re photo: Neg. #2000-6853 is a photo of 68011, 68014, 68015, 68016, and 68017. 68016 is in lower right of image.