Though catalogued as #4 in the collection, and listed as from Alaska, this object is either #2 or #3 on the detailed list filed in the accession record, both of which are identified as tobacco or snuff mortars from Skeena River, B.C..

FROM CARD: "NET. SINEWS."

FROM CARD: "MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL DYED BROWN, YELLOW AND BLUE, WOVEN ON A WARP OF WOOL AND BRAIDED CEDAR-BARK FIBERS; DEERSKIN TYING STRAPS. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 216. 168,292 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75 LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988." Illus. Fig. 563b, p. 372, in "The Chilkat Blanket" by George T. Emmons, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3, part 4, 1907.Shgen George, weaver, and Shirley Kendall. elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The top of this blanket is stretched due to use. The design of the head of this suggests diving whale, but the absence of a tail leaves it unclear. Diving whale designs are not clan-specific. Shirley notes that she was told in a diving whale design, faces in the middle typically have a yellow mask, but if it's plain, the design is meant to relfect the spirit of the animal.5 lines of dark thread at the bottom right and left corners of the blanket along the edge's braiding represents the weaver's signature. Information recieved by Chilkoot Indian Association visit 8/29/2024.

FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E168297-0 Shirt and E168297-1 Moccasin trousers are both on loan.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=262 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Moccasin pants Tlingit chiefs and nobles wore fringed and beaded moccasin-pants made from tanned caribou hide. The clothing was acquired through trade with the Tahltan, Tutchone, Ahtna, and other Athabascan peoples. Bands of colorful trade beads recreate old-style designs formerly made with dyed porcupine quills. See also the remarks for the shirt from this clothing set, E168297-0. The Sharing Knowledge website entry on the shirt notes that its beadwork style is probably Interior Tlingit or Tahltan.

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."

The objects in this accession were collected primarily for use on museum exhibit mannequins representing a Chilkat Tlingit family group. It may be speculated that this hair was to be used as part of the exhibit.

From card: "Made of cedar bark in checker weaving. Patterns formed by using strips of different widths." From Emmons tag with the artifact: ""Nitinat" Basket from the S.W. coast of Vancouver Id, made of the inner bark of the red cedar. This basket was in use when I got it packed with the gear of a seal fisherman, it was full of bark lines and extra pieces of spear +c. For Prof. O.T. Mason from G. T. Emmons." Also written in pencil on the tag at a later date: "Drag for harpoon line."