FROM CARD: "TLINKIT USE THEM AS GONGS [sic]. PAINTED WITH DEVICES PREDOMINANTLY BLACK, SOME RED, AND A LITTLE GREEN. SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATED (FIG.3) AND MENTIONED IN TEXT (P.344) OF BOAS SOCIAL ORG. AND SECRET SOC. OF KWAKIUTL. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 3; P. 343." Caption for figure 3 in Boas states: "The painting on this plate represents the hawk. The upper face shows the hawk's head, and the lower face its body. The three lines on each side of the body are probably the talons."Anthropology catalogue ledger book and list in accession file (this object is # 30) identify this object as acquired in Sitka. It is included on list in accession file of objects "purchased of [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, Sitka."

CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO WINSTON-SALEM, NC. 1905. FROM CARD: "...NO. 23360: DONATION OF DUPLICATE SPECIMENS REQUEST OF SENATOR T. M. SIMMONS. THE WACHOVIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY WINSTON-SALEM NORTH CAROLINA C/O MR. WM. A. BLAIR, PRES'T. OCT. 12, 1905." SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO ALBANY MUSEUM, SOUTH AFRICA, 1905.

72683, 72684, 72696 and 72697 are identified as Swan original # 45. Swan's list in the accession file identifies # 45 as "3 Indian baskets from Sitka, and wooden canoe bailer." Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists no object # 72698, though it is identified as a basket on the group catalogue card for 72696 - 8, all three of which are listed as Sitka. Catalogue card for 72696 - 8 lists culture as Makah, but the source of that ID is unknown. If Sitka is correct, baskets 72696 and 72697 may instead be Tlingit?

FROM CARD: "20620-1. SHORT HANDLES PLAIN."

FROM CARD: "ENGRAVED WITH TRADITIONAL SCROLL DEISGN WITH CLASP. INVENTORIED 1979. FROM OLD EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELETS (3).---SILVER BANDS, 3/4 INCH BROAD, BENT IN CIRCLETS; HOOK-AND-EYE CLASP; EXTERIOR ENGRAVED WITH SCROLL-WORK. SITKA INDIANS. GREATER DIAMS., 2 1/4 TO 2 1/2 INS. LEAST DIAMS., 1 7/8 TO 2 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,536, 19,537, 19,538. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE NOT PAINTED. DESIGN: AN EAGLE'S BODY, HEAD AND NECK. THE TAIL A GROTESQUE HUMAN MASK."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?