From card: "This mask represents a bears head." Mask has movable eyes and lower jaw.

From card: "Of spruce root in the twined weave alternating with the checkered weave. Fitted with bear-hide handles (two). Used to carry berries on the back. From Kluckwan [presumably Klukwan] the Chilkat tribe, Tlingit, of southeastern Alaska."

FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL. SAYERS. ILLUS. FIG.115, P.109 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PEN. PRESS, 1989. 1. EX. LEIDEN MUS. MAY /99. EX. GLEN IS. MUS., 11/95. EXCHANGE FOR MODEL COSTUMES KIOTO GIRLS' HIGHER NORMAL SCHOOL KIOTO, JAPAN APRIL 12, 1905. EXCHANGE FOR AWARD-MISS MARY H. CORBETT U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 20, 1906. EXCHANGE: MRS. J. G. SAYERS 110 MARYLAND AVENUE 4/10/1897. WASHINGTON, D.C." Anthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates 1 basket was sent as a gift to Union University, Jackson, Tenn. in 1/31/1923.Listed on page 41 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".

From card: "Made from scalp locks." From accession file: "Festival headdress, made from the hair of women from Kluckwon, the Chilkat tribe, and worn by men. It imitates the wearing of the hair by the interior Athabaskan tribes, Yukon Valley. The beaded ornaments are to represent earrings."