The Peabody Museum at Harvard houses 600 artifacts that Lieutenant Edward G. Fast acquired from the Russian American Company  and from the Tlingit Natives during his short stay in Sitka, Alaska from 1867—1868. 

Fast categorized the artifacts in his Catalogue of Alaskan Antiquities and Curiosities into the following:

1. Antiquities found in Ancient Graves
2. War, hunting, and fishing
3.  Professinal Implements of a medicine man
4. Dresses (costumes, regalia)
5. Domestic, Fancy (Dolls, combs, ornaments, masks, etc)
6. Basket work
7. Aleutian curiosities
8. Money (russian)
9. Modern arms (muskets etc)
10. Geological collections  

Here is an excerpt from the 7th Class from Edward G. Fast Catalogue:  

"The following articles are specimens of handiwork, of recent times, of the Aleutians—a people of Mongolian descent—scattered over the Aleutian Islands, the islands of Kodiak, St. Paul, St. George and the peninsula of Alaska.  They are very industrious, and of a gentle and peaceable disposition.  Early subjugated by the Russians, they lived, during the continuance of the Russian Government, in a state of bondage which we should call worse than slavery. The Russian Government treated them however, with fatherly care: furnished them with the necessary provisions, bestowed upon them the blessings of Christianity, sustained a number of priests, and has had schools established for the education." 

Mr. Fast credited an elderly shaman who assisted him with the pillaging of graves.  He obtained shaman objects by doing this.  Mr. Fast also traded goods for Tlingit artifacts with the people of Sitka.