Written on artifact itself: "Ice or seal hook used in boat, Taku Harbor, S.E. Alaska." Written by Dr. William Fitzhugh on barcode tag with artifact: "Must be Norton Sound/SW Alaskan Eskimo origin."

From card: "Shank of hard wood, blade of iron, lashing of split-spruce root. (Old)."In letter dated April 17, 1901 in accession file, Emmons identifies these objects as from Killisnoo. However, he also identifies Killisnoo as on Admiralty Island, but Killisnoo is on Killisnoo Island; it is Angoon which is on Admiralty Island. Because of this confusion, and because of the fact that Killisnoo and Angoon are only 2 miles apart, it is unclear whether these objects were collected at Killisnoo or Angoon.

FROM CARD: "COPPER. 168381-A 2.2CM WIDE; SETTINGS NEAR CLASP ARE MISSING. 168381-B 2.4CM WIDE; SETTINGS NEAR CLASP ARE MISSING. INVENTORIED 1979."

From late 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Plaiting in Cedar Bark. - Half finished wallet made of the inner bark of the giant cedar (Thuja giagantea) in three colors, the natural hue of the bark, light-brown, and black. The weaving is in plain, square patterns, similar to that done by the Indians farther south. Henneah or Hennegah (Henya) Indians (Koluschan Stock), Tuxshekan (Tuxikan). Southeast Alaska, 1889. Gift of Lieut. George T. Emmons, U.S.N. The Indians of the Northwest Coast formerly removed slabs of cedar bark by hacking around the tree as in gathering tan bark, and then splitting them off in strips or whole, by means of wedges made of the ribs of the deer. These slabs then received a different treatment according to their future use as roof coverings, cinctures, beds, sails, mats, or baskets. For weaving or plaiting the bast or inner bark was peeled off and split with the thumb-nail. The black dyeing was done by burying the strips in a bog, and the brown by means of vegetable substances. No loom was used, but the plaiter sat on the ground and manipulated her material in precisely the same way as the palm-leaf-hat makers."

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".

This game is described on p. 243 of "Games of the North American Indians" by Stewart Culin, BAE 24th Annual Report. Culin identifies it there as stick game.Anthropology catalogue ledger book and accession record identify the locality as Chilkhat, Alaska.

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."