FROM CARD: "[Only] ONE HALF SHOWN IN [Anthropology catalogue ledger book] DRAWING."Object has rows of fringe, and painted red and black formline design panels on two borders. Cylindrical red beads on ends of some of fringes.Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.Florence Sheakley and Shirley Kendall, both Tlingit elders, made the following commentsduring the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This object is a cape that comes from Kagwaantan clan and has an identical wolf crest design on both ends.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; PL. 14; P. 394." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW-SHOES.---FRAME OF WOOD; ROUNDING TOE, STRONGLY CURVED UP; LONG POINTED HEEL. TOE AND HEEL NETTING CLOSE AND FINE, MADE OF LINES OF PREPARED DEER SKIN, OR BABICHE; FOOT NETTING COARSE, STRONG MAHOUT, ROVE THROUGH FRAME. PAINTED AND ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS. LOOPS FOR FASTENING THE SHOE TO THE FOOT. THESE SHOES WERE NOT MADE TO BE WORN INTERCHANGEABLY ON RIGHT AND LEFT FOOT, THERE BEING A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN THE SHAPE OF THE TWO FRAMES. LENGTH, 49 INCHES; GREATEST WIDTH, 11 3/4 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA, 1882. 63,558. COLLECTED BY JOHN J. MCLEAN. WORN BY THE TINNE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK) AND BROUGHT TO SITKA IN TRADE. NEG. NO. 5521."

This game is described on p. 243 - 244 of "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. Culin identifies it there as stick game. Gambling sticks are stored in an El Roi-Tan cigar box.

This object is # 33 on McLean's list of objects in the accession file. He notes that this object was "found in the attic of the Russian castle, location of U.S. Signal office."

FROM CARD: "67867-70. 3 SNUFF TUBES FOUND. INVENTORIED 1979."

FROM CARD: "60152-53. 60153 EXCHANGED (2). #60153 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42, FIG. 228(?); P. 318."

Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67922 - 5. Catalogue card lists a locality of Kootznahoo. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct.