FROM CARD: "EYE SHADE. MADE OF SPRUCE, CONSISTING OF A SIMPLE VISOR CARVED OUT OF A SINGLE PIECE. THE VISOR IS MOST COMMON IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTION FROM SLEDGE ISLAND AND VICINITY. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 29-C; P. 298."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/118 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Visor made from a single piece of wood and with a strap made from sinew. The inner part of the visor, where it is meant to rest against the forehead, has a concave shape and the opposite edge has a similar convex curvature. The strap is attached to the visor through holes drilled at both ends. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/61: Visors were worn on the forehead to shield the wearer's eyes from the glare of the sun off snow or water.

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID, CARVED TO REPRESENT THE "THUNDERBIRD PAINTED, AND PEGGED WITH TUFTS OF HAIR (NOW GONE). STRONGLY RECURVED BEAK. PAINT COLORS: GREEN, VERMILLION, BLACK. (WOOD WHERE EXPOSED BENEATH PAINT IS CRUMBLING) NEG. NO. 43,228 (FRONT) NEG. NO. 43,228-A PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE) NEG. NO. 8374."Appears to be a set consisting of a war helmet and visor or collar, rather than a dance mask.

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Wooden slab cut from the solid and given an oval shape by parallel grooves cut in parallel on reverse and by securing the ends at back with rawhide thong. Excavation on reverse for nose, and slotted at top for vision, perforated for breathing. Unfinished. Carved in stylistically on left side only, which is also painted in vermillion and black. See: "Primitive American Armor", by Walter Hough. Report, U.S.N.M. for 1893, pp. 625-651."

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."

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID, STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL. REVERSE CUT VERTICALLY AT ONE INCH INTERVALS TO ONE QUARTER INCH DEPTH, FORMING NARROW GROOVES PERMITTING VISOR TO BE BENT CRESCENT SHAPE (NOW PERMANENT AND INFLEXIBLE). REVERSE ALSO EXCAVATED FOR NOSE CONFORMATION AND PERFORATED JUST BENEATH FOR BREATHING. SHALLOW CRESCENTS AT TOP IN FRONT OF EYES FOR VISION. PAINT COLORS: VERMILLION, TRACES OF GREEN. NEG. NO. 43,230 (FRONT). 43,230-A (PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE). 43,230-B (TOP)." See apparently associated object E60214. December 1881 list in accession file lists the frog helmet as being accompanied by a neck shield.McLean list in accession file identifies this object as Chilcat. It appears that Chilcat may be meant as a place name on this list, perhaps not specifically or exclusively as a culture name, similar to the way other objects in the collection are identified as Sitka, Kootzahoo, and Hoonia. Chilcat/Chilkat is a name sometimes used for Klukwan.Alan Zuboff, elder, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. In order to make this visor, the wood was soaked, not steamed. Typically wood is soaked for five days and then bent by hand to make an object like this.