From card: "Bent wood sides, heavy top inlaid with opercula; sides carved and painted. Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 182. From: page 82, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page: 73. Chest. Wood; carved in relief; painted black and red; inlaid with opercula and abalone shell; kerfed and sewn. Length: 38 [inches]. Alaska. Collected by John G. Brady."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=321, retrieved 3-31-2012: Chest or Box, Tlingit, Southeast Alaska.Listed on page 43 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".