From card (mistakenly listed as people/culture): "Shaman's."

FROM CARD: "USED BY SHAMANS."Anthropology catalogue ledger book and accession record identify the locality as Hoonah, Alaska.

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. ONE THESE 8 MATS WAS APPARENTLY EXCHANGED, FOR IT RETURNED TO USNM IN 1931 IN THE EVANS COLLECTION AND WAS GIVEN NO. 361,312."

FROM CARD: "COVERED. NO. 168273,-6 1/2" HIGH. 168274, - 4 3/4" HIGH LX. AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR, 2-21-03. 168275-6 AND 168278, 3" HIGH. 168277 AND 168279, -3 1/2" HIGH. 168280, 5 1/2" HIGH. 168,281, -8" HIGH. 168,282, - 6". NO.168,276 EXCHANGED WITH THOMAS WILSON. NO. 168,279 EXCHANGED. - MS. J. G. SAYERS 4/10/1897. 110 MARYLAND AVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. SENT AS LOAN TO L. J BERGER-AMER.-COLORTYPE CO. 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.-MARCH 27, 1903. 168,272-82. NO.168278: SENT AS GIFT TO MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA. C/O DR. S. Y. JAMESON, PREST. AUG. 6, 1906. #168282 - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 73; P. 548. #168277-ON EXHIBIT: HALL 11, MAY 1990."

FROM CARD: "FOR THE FACE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 26 on list) appears to attribute this to the HoonahTlingit of "Khart-heene"? [speculatively, possibly a version of one of the place names Karheen???] List also identifies object as "Pattern sticks or stencils for marking face for festival or ceremonial occasions ... the stick is laid on the face and the color is applied around it."Listed on page 47 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 OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BONE OR IVORY CARVING (SHAMAN'S CHARM).---THE MIDDLE PORTION SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES THE BODY OF A MARINE WORM (NEREIS), IN HAVING LATERAL APPENDAGES. THE ENDS REPRESENT GROTESQUE HEADS, THE LONGER ONE BEING SPLIT AFTER THE FASHION OF A CLOWN'S BATON. SITKA, ALASKA, 1880. COLLECTED BY COM. L. A. BEARDSLEE, U. S. N. ."

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. 1 GIFT ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INST., FEB. 14, 1903."Listed on page 45 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: "Used to lay off designs on surface to be painted. April 1963 an unnumbered bundle of cedar bark was found in the collection, and it was marked as ? this or No. [209]664." List in accession file identifies object as #49, "cedar bark stencil used to lay off design on surface to be painted."

From card: "Womans face with labret. Painted blue; eyebrows and pupils black; nostrils, ears, and lips red; designs painted over right eyebrow, on left cheek, and right chin. One leather thong, for slipping over wearers ear, remains."