Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 612, collector is Lieut. Paddock, 2nd Artillery, U.S.A. and object is identified as "Labret formerly used by married women (Thlinkets), Sitka."

FROM CARD: "9244-54. NOS. 9244, 9250 ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIGS. 34, 32; P. 394. 9244, 9248, 9252, 9253, 9254: THESE 5 SPECIMENS WERE LENT TO RENWICK "BOXES AND BOWLS" EXHIBITION ON 11-7-73. RETURNED 8-24-76. LOANED RENWICK 11-7-73. (SEE FRONT OF CARD). LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76."

MODEL OF DUGOUT CANOE; 4 STRUTS, 4 TOTEMIC DESIGNS (KILLER WHALE ?) PAINTED ON SIDES IN RED & BLACK.Letter from donor dated May 3, 1978, filed in accession file, indicates that this object was purchased from Mrs. Charles Bartlett of Port Townsend, WA. Her husband Mr. Charles Bartlett was one of the earliest settlers of Port Townsend. Object said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan.

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. BELONGING TO 2 MASKS NO. 169105-6."

DEEP, ROUND BOTTOMED CONTAINER OF THICK GRASS BUNDLE COILS, AND SPLIT STITCHES, PLUS IMBRICATED GEOMETRIC DECORATION IN LIGHTER COLOR. COLLECTED NEW IN 1949 NEAR SHAKER SETTLEMENTS.

Killer whale motif, per Tommy Joseph, 6-2-2009.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 36, FIG. 184; P.314." Identified in publication cited above as twined wallet (i.e. bag), Chilkat Indians, Alaska, from W. F. (William Fraser)Tolmie. Note that Tolmie's last name is mistranscribed on catalogue card as Tolnie. Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists both Tolmie's and George Suckley's names as source of this object but also identifies this object as probably part of George Suckley accession # 126 for the year 1859, so Tolmie may be the collector who Suckley acquired it from, probably circa 1855 in Washington Territory?

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: "Carved and painted (much decayed)."

FROM CARD: "2ND HEADRING OF NINALAADGIGORS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 130; P. 485."