This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.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=703 , retrieved 5-17-2012: Halibut hook, Haida. Halibut surpassed every other food in the traditional diet. Individual matrilineages claimed ownership of undersea "banks" (plateaus) where the fish congregate. Early spring halibut fishing brought some of the first fresh food of the year, and people worked to lay in a large supply, the men pulling the fish from the bottom on wooden hooks and the women slicing them into fillets and drying them for storage. On summer trading voyages, the Haida exchanged dried halibut and seaweed to the Tsimshian for eulachon grease and berries. On this halibut hook, a predatory creature is shown capturing a seal.

FROM CARD: "SUSPENDED WARP WEAVING FOR COMMERCIAL USE; FRINGED AT BOTTOM. BORDER BANDS IN WHITE, BLACK, AND YELLOW; LARGE CENTRAL PANEL IN BLACK WITH DECORATIVE DETAILS IN YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE EACH OUTLINED WITH DOUBLE CORDONNET IN WHITE. WARP OF CEDAR BARK IN TWO-PLY TWIST INTERTWINED WITH WOOL OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP; WEFT TWINING OF WOOL OF MOUNTAIN GOAT (?). BADLY DAMAGED BY INSECTS."This robe is in poor condition, but appears to have a yellow and blue checkerboard "signature" at the bottom left and right corners. Per Clarissa (Hudson) Rizal, Tlingit artist/weaver, 2006, this resembles the signature used by her teacher Chilkat weaver Jennie Thlunaut (1892-1986).Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket has a killer whale design, based on the fins, and there are flickerbird feather designs on the garment as well. Shgen says that it is common to see blue and green at the corners and they are not necessarily a weaver's 'signature.' The heading cord at the top is thin, which is unusual, and this one is broken. The fringe has remnants of blue in it, and is hand spun, but with commercial dye.