FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 16; P. 394. MARKED PRIVATE." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.--SQUARE FRAMES, POINTED ENDS, SHARPLY CURVED UP IN FRONT. TOE AND HEEL NETTING OF FINE LINE, CUT FROM PREPARED DEERSKINS, CALLED BABICHE, ROVE THROUGH FRAMES. FOOT NETTING COARSER AND WOUND AROUND FRAMES. FRAMES PAINTED BLACK AND GREEN AND DECORATED WITH TUFTS OF COLORED WORSTED ON OUTSIDE. LENGTH, 29 INS. GREATEST BREADTH, 8 1/2 INS. FORT SIMPSON, MACKENZIE RIVER, BRITISH AMERICA, 1868. 5,647. COLLECTED BY B. R. ROSS. USED BY HUDSON BAY COMPANY'S VOYAGEURS OF MACKENZIE RIVER DISTRICT."

6 PAINTED WOOD OARS OR PADDLES. As of 3-13-2008, one of the 6 now changed to number E129577-0. - F. PickeringThis kayak paddle is illustrated and described in detail (listed as # T.14562.3) on p. 474 and Color Plate XV, # 4, after p. 274 in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press. Golden identifies this as a Norton Sound Yup'ik type.

6 PAINTED WOOD OARS OR PADDLES. As of 3-13-2008, one of the 6 now changed to number E129577-0. - F. PickeringThis kayak paddle is illustrated and described in detail (listed as # T.14562.2) on p. 474 and Color Plate XV, # 3, after p. 274 in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press. Golden identifies this as a Norton Sound Yup'ik type.

6 PAINTED WOOD OARS OR PADDLES. As of 3-13-2008, one of the 6 now changed to number E129577-0. - F. PickeringThis kayak paddle is illustrated and described in detail (listed as # T.14562.5) on p. 492 and Color Plate XXII, # 1, after p. 274 in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press. Golden identifies this as Southern Inupiaq, from the Bering Sea coast of Alaska, possibly from the King Island area.

6 PAINTED WOOD OARS OR PADDLES. As of 3-13-2008, one of the 6 now changed to number E129577-0. - F. PickeringThis kayak paddle is illustrated and described in detail (listed as # T.14562.4) on p. 464 and Color Plate XIII, # 1, after p. 274 in Golden, Harvey. 2015. Kayaks of Alaska. Portland, OR: White House Grocery Press. Golden identifies this as a Sugpiaq-Alutiiq paddle.

The objects in this accession were collected primarily for use on museum exhibit mannequins representing a Chilkat Tlingit family group. It may be speculated that this hair was to be used as part of the exhibit.

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?