FROM CARD: "WHOLE AND BROKEN LABRETS OF SERPENTINE IN VARIOUS PATTERN-ONE WHOLE, THE OTHERS BROKEN."

FROM CARD: "OF SKIN. CONTAINING PAINT."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 27 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan. List identifies as "Small skin case containing native mineral? paint ... used to color the face on ceremonial occasions, applied by means of stencils."

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."

FROM CARD: "PLAIN WEAVING."

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=660 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Collar or necklace, Tlingit Museum collector George T. Emmons recorded that this colorful woman's collar, purchased in 1901, was "the beaded neck ornament of a basket weaver." The geometric patterning is unusual for Tlingit beadwork and may have been inspired by spruce root basketry designs or by Athabascan quillwork. The small "seed" beads on the collar itself are typical of the late 19th century, whereas the large round and faceted beads used on the dangles are at least half a century older.

From card: "A staff of wood with brass cap, carved to represent [starting at brass cap] bear, raven, frog, scaled serpent."Emmons in the accession file identifies this as a fish dance staff. Though this was catalogued as from Killisnoo, Alaska, in a letter dated August 20, 1903 in the accession file Emmons notes among objects shipped from Juneau this object and identifies it further as "Dance wand or chiefs beating stick used to keep time to the dance song[;] is from the Stickheen [Stikine] qwan[;] on it is represented the bear, the raven, the frog and an eel like salt water fish."

From card: "Mask of wood -- from Massett, the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, the Haida people. It represents an old wrinkled man with white hair, worn up general festival occasions."

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=661, retrieved 3-31-2012: Cradle. The front of this fringed and beaded cradle is made of tanned hide and the back is covered with spotted deer fur. The small pouch that hangs from the front would have contained the child's umbilical cord, saved from birth, as well as amulets such as miniature paddles, arrowheads, or earrings. When children were older their mothers hung these amulet pouches around their necks for continuing spiritual protection.