FROM CARD: "$10.00. THE BEAR, BEAVER & OWL." SWAN'S ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD IDENTIFIES THIS OBJECT AS "CARVED TOTEMIC COLUMN. THE BEAR, BEAVER AND OWL. IN FRONT OF CHIEFS HOUSE, KLEMMAKOAN, PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO, ALASKA - KYGANI BRANCH OF THE HAIDA FAMILY OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B.C." KLEMMAKOAN (THE NAME SWAN USED FOR KLINKWAN) WAS MISTRANSCRIBED IN TYPED ACCESSION LIST AND IN ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOGUE LEDGER BOOK AS BLEMMAKOAN. - F. PICKERING 6-23-1999

From card: "Presented by Ellswarsh, chief of Skidgate. Bent bowl; wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. From: Page 68, Boxes and Bowls catalogue; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page.: Bent bowl. Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Length: 16 1/4". Haida, Skidegate, British Columbia. Presented by Ellswarsh, Chief of Skidegate, to James G. Swan, October 1883."Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, "Ellswarsh" may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.

From card: "Presented by Ellsworth [a.k.a. Ellswarsh], a chief. See U.S.N.M. Report 1888, p. 446, pl. 29. A rectangular box open at top. When used as a drum it is held on one corner, the open top towards the drummer and its sides beaten. The sides and ends are one piece of wood. Three triangular grooves are cut across the piece at the inside where the corners are to come the wood is bent a right angle. What splinters occur are speared off, giving rounded corners on the outside. The sides are painted with their conventional designs of the thunder bird, masks, etc. Used as a drum in their ceremonies." Note re photos: Neg. #s 96-20092 shows side 1, and 96-20093 shows side 2, of this box drum's painted sides.Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, Ellsworth or Ellswarsh may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.

FROM CARD: "WHALE RIB. LENT TO MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012. Identified as Marine Mammal/Walrus bone, rather than whale, during preparation of affidavits on organic materials for Mexico loan return, 2011.

From card: "Made from piece of heavy sheet copper hammered, crudely formed. Probably from ship bottom."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 1 bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow (of 2) included on loan.From card: "Bow illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 26, fig. 114; p. 286."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=619 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Bow and arrow, Haida. Hunters shot ducks and geese with blunt-tipped wooden arrows, and they continued to use the bow and arrow on some occasions even after firearms were introduced. Haida bows were made of yew wood and relatively broad in the middle, tapering to the tips. Men carried their arrows in quivers made of seal or sea otter skin.