From card: "Mask of wood -- from Massett, the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, the Haida people. It represents an old wrinkled man with white hair, worn up general festival occasions."

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "EAR-RING.---SILVER-PLATED BOB, HOOK AND CLASP, WITH BELL OR CONICAL-SHAPED PENDANT 1 1/2 INCHES LONG. HAI-DAH INDIANS, PRINCE OF WALES ISLANDS. LENGTH, 2 INCHES. ALASKA, 1875. 19,547. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "DESCRIPTION AND LEGEND ON REVERSE. COLLECTOR'S DESCRIPTION: "CARVED COLUMN LIKE......ERECTED IN FRONT OF CHIEF RESIDENCES QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B.C. LEGEND. THE LOWER FIGURE IS THE GRIZZLY BEAR HOORTS. ON HIS HEAD IS THE CODFISH (MYTHOLOGICAL) KAHATTA INDICATED BY THE TEETH AND SCALES. THE UPPER FIGURE IS THE BEAVER TSING. HIS HEAD IS SURMOUNTED BY THE HAT WORN BY CHIEF TO INDICATE THEIR RANK. IT IS COMPOSED OF BASKET WORK AND THE NUMBER OF THESE INDICATES THE DEGREE OF RANK ATTAINED BY THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE IN FRONT OF WHICH THE COLUMN IS SET UP. IT IS HEARALDIC AND INDICATES THE TOTEM OR FAMILY CONNECTIONS. JAMES G. SWAN, PORT TOWNSEND, W. T. JULY 6TH, 1882." IDENTIFIED AS MODEL OF CARVED COLUMN IN FRONT OF CHIEF'S HOUSE SKIDEGATE IN LEDGER BOOK AND SWAN'S LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD. - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BARBEAU, "HAIDA MYTHS ILLUS. IN ARGILLITE CARVINGS", NMC#127, P. 197. LABEL: "CHILKAT INDIANS" INVENTORIED 1980." Illus. Pl. 157, p. 197 and described p. 228 in Thunderbird chapter of Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as "An oval plate with the Thunderbird in low relief inside, and a folate wheel on the obverse side. 9 5/8" long diam. x 8 1/4" short diam."

From card: "Woven grass."Original label attached to artifact says "Lillie [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

From card: "Worn as a hat; painted with totemic designs and carved to represent an animal. Some appendages missing. Apparently recently made."

Argillite pipe with a heel and lanceolate (tobacco leaf?) relief carved decoration on the bowl, probably based on the form of European or American commercial clay tobacco pipes. Red pigment in some of the incised lines. Has original Peale # label.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Paper labels inside dish read: "No 47 Paint dish, Haida, Skidigate $1 Sep 1883 J. G. Swan. No 47. This very fine specimen was purchased at Skidigate Queen Charlotte Island Sep 1883 for $1.00 J. G. Swan"."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=629 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Paint Dish, Haida. This stone dish from Skidegate was used for blending oil-based colors to apply to the body and face, or for mixing paints to use on hats, masks, boxes, and other work. For the latter purpose, crushed salmon eggs were added as a fixative. Charcoal, roasted tree fungus, ocher, cinnabar, and berry juices were among the common coloring materials. The bottom of the dish is carved with a Sea Bear and Killer Whale, both crests of the Raven moiety.