Listed on page 50 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: "HARPOON-POLE. A HEAVY, UNWIELDY POLE MADE OF YEW (TAXUS BREVIFOLIA), SCARFED IN THREE PLACES, AND SERVED WITH STRIPS OF WILD-CHERRY BARK. ONE END TAPERS TO A POINT FOR THE RECEPTION OF HARPOON-SOCKET. USED BY NATIVES IN THRUSTING THE HARPOON INTO THE WHALE TO MAKE FAST THE SEAL-SKIN BUOYS. LENGTH, 15 FEET. MAKAH INDIANS, CAPE FLATTERY, 1883. 26825 JAMES G. SWAN. AN IMPLEMENT FOR WHICH THE MAKAH WHALER HAS A SPECIAL REGARD. IT IS SELDOM USED WITHOUT BEING BROKEN; IT IS THEN REPAIRED, AND ACQUIRES ADDITIONAL VALUE. I SAW ONE WITH SIX PLACES WHERE IT HAD BEEN REPAIRED, AND THE OWNER WOULD NOT PART WITH IT FOR ANY PRICE. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET THE ONE NOW SENT, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE PERFECTLY WILLING TO MAKE ME NEW ONES, BUT HAD NO YEW. SOME OF THESE HARPOON STAFFS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME FAMILY FOR MANY GENERATIONS COULD NOT BE PURCHASED, FROM A SUPERSTITION THAT IT WOULD BE UNLUCKY."Described p. 102 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.. This description was added to the card (see text above.)

FROM CARD: "30209-11. LOCALITY: ALASKA (NOT ALL)*. REMARKS: ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR: #30210 ON PL. XIV, FIGS. 22, P. 173. NO. 30210 EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS SUPERNATURAL MAN MASK, WESTCOAST (NOOTKA)."See Brown, Steven C., 2000, "Turning the Tables: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Southern Design Styles on the Northern Northwest Coast," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3): 48-55. In the discussion in the article on Field Museum of Natural History housefront model and totem pole model Cat. No. 264015, in footnote # 2 on p. 55, Brown speculates on the artist who made it. He notes: "The identity of the artist who created this housefront is not yet certain. Contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth artists have proposed three possibilities: Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim (both Tla'oquiaht [Clayoquot]) and Chel'tus (Ditidaht) (Black 1999:110). The writer's opinion leans toward Chel'tus, because masks more certainly attributed to Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim differ significantly in style from the former artist's apparent body of work." Brown goes on to list other artifacts he attributes to the same artist who created the Field Museum housefront model, including serpent mask # E54153 and humanoid face mask # E30210 as part of his work.