From card: "Of soft deer skin, with cut fringe. Row of flannel fringe sewed on. Upper border of otter skin. Surface painted with designs. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64. Returned 2/15/66."Accession record 41512 identifies this object as "skin skirt with dew-claws." See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several Emmons accessions. It may contain information about # E221178? # E221178 may be the object referred to on a list at the end of that file as: "Shamans dance apron of caribou skin painted."

From card: "Same as "A" except not stained as dark brown, and the carving on the top or face side represents a wolf-like animal curled around the edge but taking up most of the surface. Small piece of the upper edge, above the head has been split off but not damaing the carving, and a short crack on the lower right side has been bound together with a cord repair. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 5c, pg. 460."

Listed on page 46 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 (Tools)".

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."

LEDGER SAYS SENT TO MUSEO DE LA PLATA. 1905. Since original object is still in the collections, perhaps it was a cast that was sent instead?From card: "Of marble, held a long time in the Tagwayta family of the Hootz-ah-tai gwan through many generations of chiefs. See Cat. No. 229785 under Anthropological Lab. for 3 casts. Illus. in the Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 195. [Identified there as a ceremonial bowl or mortar.] Loan: Dec. 31, 1964 R. H. Lowie Museum, Retd: Feb. 15, 1966. Loan: Natl. Gallery of Art October 20, 1972, Retd: May 29, 1973. Loan: The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 12/3/75; Returned 3-25-76. Loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago 6/22/77; Returned 12/1/77. Lent to Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Brussels), 8-18-92; Loan Returned, 1-26-93."Collector Emmons in accession record information (which has been added to the catalogue card) attributes this piece as: "held a long time in the Taqwayta (accession record) / Tagwayta (catalogue card) family of the Hootz-ah-tai gwan through many generations of chiefs." It can be assumed that the Taqwayta/Tagwayta family probably refers to the Teikweidi clan. Provenance for this object is probably similar/same to that of E221184, i.e. purchased by Emmons in 1903 from a member of the Teikweidi clan in Killisnoo or Angoon, Alaska (see remarks for E221184).

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: "HEAD, BUST AND ARMS OF WOMAN CARVED IN RELIEF ON SQUARE BACKGROUND, THE MARGINS INLAID WITH ABALONE. IT IS THE FRONT OF A HEADDRESS OF ERMINE. L.P. EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904. OBJECT IS ILLUS. FIG. 6, P. 65, IN EMMONS, GEORGE T. "PORTRAITURE AMONG THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST TRIBES," AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 16(1), 1914. OBJECT IDENTIFIED THERE AS "BUST OF A YOUNG GIRL NATURALLY POSED AND DRESSED IN THE STYLE OF A GENERATION AGO; IT IS SAID TO REPRESENT THE FAVORITE DAUGHTER OF A HAIDA CHIEF WHOSE UNTIMELY DEATH SO SADDENED THE FATHER THAT HE HAD HER IMAGE CARVED IN THIS MANNER IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT WEAR IT ON CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS ON THE FRONT OF HIS HEAD-DRESS." SEE FIG. 11, P. 180 OF BILL HOLM, "WILL THE REAL CHARLES EDENSAW PLEASE STAND UP?", IN "THE WORLD IS AS SHARP AS A KNIFE"; BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, VICTORIA, 1981, WHERE FRONTLET IS ATTRIBUTED TO CARVER CHARLES GWAYTIHL. [NOTE: RESEARCH BY ROBIN WRIGHT IDENTIFIES NAME AS JOHN GWAYTIHL, NOT CHARLES, BUT WRIGHT ATTRIBUTES PIECE TO SIMEON STILTHDA, NOT GWAYTIHL, SEE BELOW]. SEE PL. 30, P. 41 IN GEORGE F. MACDONALD, HAIDA MONUMENTAL ART; UNIV. OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS, VANCOUVER, 1983. PLATE IS 1890'S PHOTO TAKEN AT SKIDEGATE SHOWING FRONTLET BEING WORN BY WOMAN IN BACK ROW. Object is illus.: Fig. 6, p. 40 in Wright, Robin K. "The Depiction of Women in Nineteenth Century Haida Argillite Carving," American Indian Art Magazine 11(4), Autumn 1986. Object is described on p.44- 45 of this article and again identified as Haida. 4/18/1967 Loaned to Vancouver Art. Gallery; 12/13/1967 Returned. Loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago 6/22/77; Returned 12/1/77."Originally cataloged as Tlingit, but later changed to Haida. Catalog card notes: "...corrected based on G.T. Emmons, American Anthropologist 16 (1): 65 (fig. 6), W. Sturtevant 12/2/1988"7-21-2005 per Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair, this artifact has been attributed to maker Simeon Stilthda (d. 1883), rather than Gwaytihl. See Collections Lab accession file for additional information. See Fig. 5.60, p. 295 of Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, where Wright attributes this headdress frontlet to Simeon Stilthda/Simeon sdiihldaa. See also pp. 45-46, and Fig. 11 p. 48 in Wright, Robin K. "Two Haida Artists from Yani: Will John Gwaytihl and Simeon Stilthda Please Step Apart," American Indian Art Magazine 23(3), Summer 1998.See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several different Emmons accessions. It appears to contain information about headdress frontlet # E221176. It may be the object referred to on a list at the end of that file as "Head dress mask from Skidigit [presumably Skidegate?], womans face + bust carved."