FROM CARD: "CENTER IS A CONCAVE CIRCULAR HOLLOW, SURROUNDED BY A WIDE RISING BORDER, CARVED AT THE ENDS INTO THE HEAD AND TAIL OF A SEAL. (PART OF TAIL IS CHIPPED). THE CENTER AND THE BORDER ARE EACH INCISED WITH THREE LINES, THE TWO OUTER ONES OF WHICH ARE INLAID WITH SMALL OPAQUE WHITE GLASS BEADS. THE TECHNIQUE OF THIS ITEM APPEARS TO INDICATE ESKIMO AND/ OR ALEUT INFLUENCE. (GEO. PHEBUS.) REFER TO: HENRY COLLINS ETC.: "THE ART OF THE FAR NORTH", NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. WASH., D.C. 1972, CAT. NO. 218. 16,262 12/72 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 5/73 RETURNED."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=516, retrieved 9-2-2012: Bowl. ciquq "bowl" - Language: Chugach Sugpiaq (Prince William Sound dialect) Though collected in Sitka, Alaska, and identified as possibly Tlingit, Aron Crowell identifies this object as Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), probably from Prince William Sound, Alaska. Sugpiaq men ate from round and animal-shaped dishes. This bowl represents a swimming seal, its head and tail just above the ocean surface. Ripples from its motion encircle the rim and spread out from the red-painted central hole, which may depict the swirl of water left by a diving seal. In Sugpiaq and Yup'ik art, circles represent passageways between levels of the multi-layered cosmos, and between upper and lower levels of the sky and sea. White trade beads accent the design.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Object appears to be the one published as Fig. 30, p. 393 in Boas, Franz, and George Hunt. 1897. The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. Washington: G.P.O. (U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1895, pp. 331-738.)

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 603, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford and object is from Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "A SEAL HATCHING FROM AN EGG."Per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 625, object is described as "Pipe illustrating Thlinket myth, seal hatching from an egg, Sitka. W. H. Dall [collector]."Ruth Demmert, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Ruth agrees with the record that this object represents a Klagu myth/legend.

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 613, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, and is from the Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID. STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL OPERCULA. REVERSE EXCAVATED TO FIT NOSE, ALSO PERFORATED FOR BREATHING HOLE JUST BENEATH. VERTICAL ONE-FOURTH INCH DEEP GROOVES PERMITTING OVAL CURVATURE CUT INTO REVERSE SIDE. OVAL SHAPE, ENDS JOINED AT REAR WITH RAWHIDE THONG. PARTLY PLAIN, AND IN PART PAINTED IN VERMILLION. NEG. NO. 43,230F (FRONT) 43,230-G (RIGHT SIDE). NEG. NO. 43,021.16,222. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 256."

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 26, FIG. 110; P. 286."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 611, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford, and object was formerly used by the Sitka Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 24TH AR, FIG. 1089, P. 793 6/1971 THOUGH 22 PIECES WERE RECORDED WHEN THE ABOVE REPORT WAS WRITTEN, AS OF THIS DATE ONLY 20 PIECES ARE IN THE COLLECTION.-R. ELDER. REFER TO. CAT. NO. 260,081 FOR A PROBABLY SIMILAR GAME."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 610, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford. and object is from Sitka Tlingit. field catalogue describes as "War club (broken) formerly used by Thlinkets, Sitka."