From card: "Carved wood. Design: A human head with deeply sunken eyes. "Oala" [sic, should be Olala, Oolala, Ulala] (Mountain demon). A section is sliced from the back of the head which forms the cover to the cavity excavated in the head. The holes in back of head are for tufts of hair. The neck is fitted to be attached to a staff. Illust. in USNM Rept., 1895, fig. 203, p. 652. Loaned to the Whitney Museum of American Art 9-10-71. Returned ... 2-9-72." Identified in USNM Annual Report for 1895 figure caption as "Part of a headdress representing the Olala." On p. 653 of this publication it is noted about 89038, 89039, 89072 and 89073: "In his dances the olala of all the northern tribes use headdresses which represent a corpse...."Provenience note: Swan list for this object in accession file, under #92 on list of objects collected at Skidegate, Skedans, Laskeek, and Fort Simpson, B.C. in the summer of 1883, identifies it as collected at Skedans, and calls it "old head of Oolalla."

Catalog card: "used in masquerade ceremonies". Also says that it was sent as an exchange to F.W. Galpin in 1907, but this is crossed out (and the whistle remains in the NMNH collection).

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. VI, FIG. 14, P.260. INVENTORIED 1979."FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "EAR-RINGS (2).---MADE OF SILVER; PENDANT TO HOOKS FOR LOBES OF EAR ARE BELL-BUTTON SHAPED ORNAMENTS, WITH EXTERIOR ENGRAVED. HAIDAH INDIANS, PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO. EXTREME LENGTH, 1 1/4 INS. LENGTH OF PENDANT, 3/4 IN. ALASKA, 1875. 19,550. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

Listed on page 46 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: "BIRDS, COPPER-BACKS."List in accession file (these objects are #s 41 and 42 on list) identifies these objects as "Two ornaments representing hummingbirds worn on dancing hat or robe of wood [?, might he mean wool, not wood?] covered with copper backs ornamentally beaten in eyes +c [word not very legible, but may be +c, which is a version of etc?] from the Prince of Wales Island Haida." Note: Prince of Wales Island is in Alaska, not B.C., as was typed on catalogue card.

From card: "Collected in 1890 by Prof. H. Hyvernat. Same as 395,517, with six figures carved in relief on front - probably a bear with a man between knees on bottom, surmounted by same animal with fish in its mouth and topped by raven with a frog in its beak. Specimen broken and repaired at the top."

From card: "Label reads: "Haida Indians", "with one figure of a man seated on the stem.""Clay-type portrait pipe; two figures with bone or ivory heads sitting, back to back, on stem behind bowl.