From card: "Pouch # 88742 contained two (sea lion?) teeth and they were so numbered. 7/7/66. Fisnskeu." There is an original Swan tag attached to 88741, marked to indicate that the information applies to E88740, E88741, and E88742: "No. 37, 3 pouches made of throat of sea lion used for holding feathers for dancing. Tisn [or Fisn] skeu. Haida, Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, July 1883, 28 c each."

FROM CARD: "REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. THE PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME SUGGESTS THAT THIS IS THE CORRECT SPECIMEN FOR THIS CAT.#. OLD PHOTOS OF THE PHILA. EXPO. OF 1876 [Centennial Exposition] SHOW THIS HOUSE MODEL W/ENTRANCE POLE AND CEDAR BARK ROOF ON DISPLAY. TYPOLOGICALLY THIS HOUSE SEEMS MORE HAIDA LIKE AND ESPECIALLY WHEN CONSIDERING THE ENTRANCE POLE. INDIVIDUAL PARTS LETTERED A-F. 6/11/69 GP." PHOTO NEG. #6251 IS PHOTO OF TOTEM POLE MODEL ONLY. ON BACK OF TOTEM POLE MODEL/HOUSE FRONTAL POLE IS COLLECTOR'S PENCILLED DESCRIPTION WHICH APPEARS TO SAY: "LOWER FIGURE WASKO WOLF WITH YOUNG WOLF IN ITS MOUTH. 4 HUMAN FIGURES DOCTOR'S GUARDIAN IMAGES. UPPER FIGURE HOORTS - BEAR AND SUMMATION IS THE KOOT OR FISH EAGLE" - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, University of Washington, 4-12-2012, the house model is probably Tsimshian, based on the painting. In 2018, Robin Wright added: The model house does indeed look to be Tsimshian in style. But now that I'm looking closely at the pole that is associated with this number, the pole does not look Tsimshian, and in fact looks to be another version of the Haida flood pole. It is based on one of the 3 Haida flood poles, It depicts the story of the flood with a stack of hat rings. Raven rescued the village during a flood by pulling up on the chief's hat rings making it grow tall enough for the people to climb up out of the flood waters.A photo of what appears to be this house model on display at the Smithsonian circa 1879 (photo may actually date more specifically to 1882 - early 1885) is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives: Photo ID 2962 or MNH-2962, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 4, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8263 . House model is on back left of photo in front of house front.This house model is visible (on right side on top of cabinet) on display in a photograph taken at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Interior view, Department of the Interior exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring archeological and anthropological artifacts, prepared by Bureau of Indian Affairs and Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 64, Folder 01, Image No. SIA_000095_B64_F01_029. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_400427 .

From card: "Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Cut down from a larger box, with new top and bottom added. From: page 82, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same and following page. "Chest. Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Cut down from a larger box, with new top and bottom added. Length: 22 1/2 [inches]. ..."

Neither object name nor description in remarks as typed on the catalogue card accurately describe this object. It seems some kind of mistake was made when the card was typed, because the object name and remarks typed on card # 89089 appear to describe rattle #89088 instead. The object name and drawing in the original Anthropology ledger book for 89089 do match this object, so object name has been changed in the database record to match the original ledger book entry. - F. Pickering 9-28-2006

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1888.Listed on page 43 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".

From card: "Bear, raven, and hawk motifs."

Catalog number 88960 [part numbers E88960-0 through E88960-3] are four hats of a similar style. One of the four hats is illustrated (small) as Hat 112, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.