In a letter dated August 12, 1902, from Chilkat [Klukwan?], Alaska, and filed in Accession 39826, Emmons notes that he is going to make up a complete tool box "for the man" (i.e. presumably for a male figure/exhibit mannequin, as the "Chilkat family group" of exhibit mannequins at one time included a carver.) In papers in Accession 40238, this tool set is identified as a set of tools used by a Tlingit wood carver in making dug out canoes, masks, etc.. In a letter of Nov. 24, 1902 in the accession file Emmons says: "These thirty odd pieces are just about an average of what any man's box would contain. ... These pieces are generally from Chilkat, but represent the working tools of a man of any of the Northern Tlingit tribes."

From card: "Sent to the National Museum by Mr. J.B. Field for Lieut. G. T. Emmons U.T.N.M. to be exchanged for a jade labret. [Catalogued as Quileute, Cape Flattery, Wash.] But see Cat. #219568 which identifies this as from "South Coast Alaska".

FROM CARD: "SMALL, CYLINDRICAL."

FROM CARD: "IN SHAPE OF AN ANCIENT MEXICAN WAR CLUB WITH RAGGED EDGE. THE SIDES ARE CARVED TO REPRESENT A MARINE ANIMAL. MADE OF WHALE'S BONE. SEE ACC. PAPERS #38645. LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA 5/18/64." Loan returned 2012. Identified as Marine Mammal/Walrus bone, rather than whale, during preparation of affidavits on organic materials for Mexico loan return, 2011.Provenience note: Emmons purchased this object in Alaska in 1901. His initial letter to the Smithsonian listing it as for sale was written from Killisnoo, Alaska. The "Prince of Wales Island" locality on the catalogue card seems to be due to a misreading of information in a letter Emmons sent on the provenance of the object. In a letter dated September 30, 1901, which is filed in the accession file, Emmons writes: "It is from the 'Stickheen qwan' [Stikine] living about the mouth of the Stickheen [Stikine] River and Clarence Sts. [islands of Clarence Strait area?], South Eastern Alaska, of the 'Tlingit' people. It is called in Tlingit 'Khutse' and is of a very old type of which but a few pieces have ever been found. I have seen this character of club figure on an old grave (totem) post at the Henyah village of 'Tuck-she-kan' [Tuxekan?] on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island."

From card: "Gambling Sticks in caribou case (double pocket) from Tahltan - the Tahltan people of the upper Stikine River where the Tahltan River joins it. Illus. in: Hndbook. of N. Amer. Indian, Vol. 6, Subarctic, Fig. 17, pg. 386." Identified as Tahltan in Handbook illustration caption.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=665, retrieved 8-23-2012: Gambling sticks and pouch, Tahltan Athabascan. Tahltan Athabascans played a traditional gambling game similar to that of their Tlingit neighbors, involving a trump stick and others shuffled beneath shredded cedar bark. This tanned caribou hide bag has a pocket at each end to hold the smooth wooden playing sticks, which are marked with black and red designs to designate their names and values. The bag is decorated with red flannel and glass beads and was made to hang over the shoulder.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Illus. Fig. 9.6, left, p. 151 in Yanicki, Gabriel & Ives, John. "Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. " In Prehistoric games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica, ed. Barbara Voorhies. University of Utah Press, 2017, 139 - 162.

From card: "Large double mask of wood ornamented with the fur of the black bear--from Kingcomb Inlet, the coast of British Columbia--the Kwakiutl people. It was known as "Zuno" and is suposed to represent a double dealing man who gave most liberally at feasts but was not to be trusted. It was last used at a feast given at Fort Rupert about 1899. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as a double faced Dzoonokwa, Kwakiutl, collected at Kingcomb Inlet, British Columbia, about 1900."Emmons describes this mask as being for sale in a letter filed filed in accession 39904, letter dated May 28, 1902 and sent from Victoria, B.C.. He lists it as being from Fort Rupert (presumably because that is where it was last used.)

From card: "Carved in crouching position. Neat work. Teeth, eyes, nose and brow inlaid with abalone shell. Painted red. Short bands."Though catalogued as #5 in the collection, and just assumed to be from Alaska, this object is actually #6 on the detailed list filed in the accession record. This list describes it as: "Ceremonial club, from Blunden Harbor [sic, this is Blunden Harbour, which is in British Columbia, Canada], the Kwakiutl tribe, the property of Chief Seaweid [a.k.a. Siwid or Seaweed]. It is carved as the head of a wolf, ornamentally painted and inlaid with haliotis shell. It was used to charm the salmon + halibut back or to bring them in the spring, or when they went fishing and failed to make a catch. A fire was built and they would take the halibut hook a[nd] char the end over the fire, and the club was used as a wand during the feast and dance."Listed on page 42 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: "BASKET. NO. 168,252 TWINED WOOF. 168,253 CHECQUER WEAVING, BLACK STRIPES."