Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE."Argillite clay-type portrait pipe; human figure with bone head sitting on stem behind bowl.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?

CEDAR MASK CARVED IN SHAPE OF A BIRD, WITH DOWN ATTACHED TO BEAK AND TOP OF FACE. BEAK IS A SEPARATELY CARVED PIECE AND PAINTED RED AT THE OPENING & AT THE TOP. PUBLICATION: BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 119 - 120 & PL. XVII, FIG. 36 & 37, P. 179. "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," BY VIOLA & MARGOLIS, ILLUSTRATED P. 141. THIS MASK WAS EXHIBITED AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, CANADA, IN 1967. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "CEDAR WOOD, REPRESENTING AN OWL (?), TRIMMED WITH DOWN. ILLUS. BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PL. XVII, FIG. 36-7, P. 179. 4-17-67 LOAN DATA: 19 HOLES ON REVERSE, FEATHER DOWN ON FOREHEAD AND CHIN, VERY FRAGILE; BEAK LOOSE. LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 4-18-67. RETURNED TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT. 12-13-67." Caption and description in BAE 3rd Annual Report, p. 179 and 119, identify this mask as representing eagle or thunderbird.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (4).---SILVER BANDS, 1 1/4 TO 1 1/2 INCHES BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS, AND FITTED WITH HOOK AND EYE CLASPS. GREATEST DIAMS., 2 3/8 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,530, 19,531, 19,532, 19,533. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. THE EXTERIORS ARE ENGRAVED, SUCCESSIVELY, WITH RUDE NATIVE IMAGES OF THE FOUR TOTEMS OF THE THLINKET INDIANS, VIZ., THE WHALE THE RAVEN (YEHL), THE WOLF (KHAN UKH), AND THE EAGLE (CHETHL') THE LATTER BEING ACCOMPANIED BY A RUDE REPRESENTATION OF AN AMERICAN HALF-DOLLAR COIN. SITKA INDIANS."Linda Wynne and Florence Sheakley, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The design on this bracelet features two killer whales sharing one dorsal fin.