FROM CARD: "$1.00."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM THE SOLID, WITH EXCEPTION OF TIP OF DOWN CURVED BEAK. TRACES OF VERMILLION, ALSO OF A GRAPHITE-LIKE PAINT. NEG. NO. 43,229-C (FRONT) 43,229-E (PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE) 43,229-D (BOTTOM) NEG. NO. 8374, LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---CARVED FROM SOLID BLOCK OF CEDAR WOOD INTO A CONICAL HELMET SURMOUNTED BY AN EAGLE'S HEAD. WOOD STAINED BLACK. ON SIDES ARE RUDELY CARVED WINGS, AND UNDER HEAD IS CARVED A RUDE [SIC] REPRESENTATION OF HEAD AND FRONT PAWS OF A YOUNG BEAR. HOLLOWED OUT ON UNDER SIDE TO FIT HEAD OF WEARER. WORN IN NATIVE DANCES BY HAIDAH INDIANS AT KLEMMAKOAN VILLAGE, SOUTHWEST PART OF PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO. OUTER DIAM., 12 INS. INNER DIAM., 8 1/4 INS. HEIGHT, 12 INS. PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO, 1876. 20,883. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN." See p. 206-207 in Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright identifies this object as having been collected by James G. Swan from Duncan ginaawaan at Klinkwan in 1875.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.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=531 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Helmet An eagle's head and wings give form to this battle helmet, on which a round-eyed spirit peers out from beneath the beak. The helmet was formerly owned by Chief Duncan Ginaawaan at Klinkwan. A Haida fighter dressed for battle in a helmet, wooden visor for his face and neck, a vest and lower body armor made of tightly bound wooden slats or rods, and a thick leather tunic. His weapons were a dagger, club, bow, or spear and in later times a musket or rifle.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. 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.FROM CARD: "IVORY, WOOD ETC. NEG. NO. 1099 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIVE CATALOG NUMBERS: 2606, 2600, 2603, 2607 AND 2599."Illus. Fig. 15, p. 46 in Wright, Robin K., 1979, "Haida Argillite Ship Pipes," American Indian Art Magazine, 5(1). Identified there as a wooden ship pipe: "Pipe of wood, paint, paper, glass, whalebone, metal. Has paddle wheel with inlaid paper behind the billethead, a horse, rider and wagon, picket fence, floral and palm tree motifs."Object on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017.

SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885. [This seems unlikley, as the object is still in the museum, and no such exchange is listed in the ledger books or cards. Wrong number?]

FROM CARD: "PAINTED. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 218. 20,807. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 8 1988.LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.430, P.303. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 7 LEFT, PG. 245. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies this as: "Painted skin robe, Haida. The squatting semihuman beings painted on this fringed skin robe have toothed mouths, clawed hands, and pierced (or eyed) palms - features also seen in Eskimo and Tlingit art. The border design, probably a sea lion, is a bilaterally symmetrical split image of a single beast. Axial symmetry, also seen in the central figures, is an important principle in Northwest Coast and Old Bering Sea art. Skin robes of this type may have been the predecessors of the appliqued button blanket, their ornamented borders equivalent to the latter's red flannel, button-decorated borders."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Swan original # 51. List in accession file identifies #51 as "1 buckskin dancing shawl, Haidah Indian at Howkan village Prince of Wales Island [sic, Howkan is on Long Island] Alaska."