Object is from Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave, per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 1157.

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 607, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford.

Dall's original/field number is not listed for this object in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book. It is possible that this piece is original # 1167, which is listed in Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, and described there as stone charm, Yakutat Tlingit, Port Mulgrave.

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: "CRUDELY CARVED OF CEDAR WOOD, ONE FIGURE ON TOP OF OTHER. LOWER ONE A SEATED HUMAN FIGURE WITH A FACE CARVED ON THE BACK OF ITS HEAD, UPPER ONE STANDING ON TOP OF THE LOWER HOLDING A LIZARD-LIKE ANIMAL IN FRONT OF ITS TORSO, HAS A CROWN WITH UPSTANDING ELEMENTS."

Per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 615, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford.Listed on page 46 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "DANCE RATTLE OR CLAPPER CARVED FROM WOOD IN THE SHAPE OF A SHORT THICK PADDLE, SPLIT LONGITUDINALLY ACROSS ITS WIDTH. ONE SECTION IS SOLID WITH ITS HANDLE; THE OTHER IS HINGED TO HANDLE WITH A NOTCH BONE SPRING. THE FLAT SIDES OF EACH SECTION ARE HOLLOWED OUT LIKE A SPOON. THE WOOD IS STAINED BLACK. ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 136, USNM, PL. 8-J, P. 121."

FROM CARD: "A SEXLESS FIGURE IN THE NUDE, STANDING WITH ARMS BROUGHT UP TO THE STOMACH, PAINTED IN BLOTCHES OF RED. DEEP GROOVE DOWN BACK OF THE HEAD."