From old exhibit label with card: "HUNTING POUCH.--MADE OF RED FLANNEL, ORNAMENTED WITH ELABORATE BEAD EMBROIDERY. RED WORSTED TASSELS, SUSPENDED ON STRINGS OF BLUE AND RED BEADS, ADORN THE LOWER EDGE OF THE POUCH. LENGTH, 15 INCHES; WIDTH, 21 INCHES. HAIDA INDIANS (SKITTAGETAN STOCK), PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,808. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."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=530 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Bag Collector James Swan recorded this beaded bag as a "hunting pouch" when he purchased it at a Haida village on Prince of Wales Island in 1875, but the fine design suggests that it may have been worn on ceremonial occasions. The bag is made of red worsted (a type of wool cloth) with a leather-backed strap; beaded wool tassels hang from the bottom edge. Embroidered lettering on the back reads "MARY.ST, KOOK.SHOE CHU'DESTA, CHARLY M.R., ALASKA.T."

From card: "Worn on the hips of performer.""Orca or Killer" = Killer whale.

From card: "20251B-- 3.4 cm wide bear design. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, pl. 8, fig. 30 [and 32], p. 260. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21, 1993. Illus. Also in Crossroads of Continents catalogue: 20251b, fig. 432, p. 304." Crossroads caption identifies: "Khoots, the grizzly bear, a crest of the Raven moiety ... He has a skeletized back and perforated (or joint-marked) paws and tail rendered in the split form that allows both sides of an animal to be shown on a two-dimensional surface. ... When silver coins came into common use in the mid-19th century, they were hammered into bracelet form ..."The original Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20251 as one pair of silver bracelets made by Geneskelos. However, at least since1888 there appear to have been 3 bracelets with catalogue number E20251: E20251-0 (20251A) a bear design bracelet; E20251-1 (20251B) a bear design bracelet decorated in a different style than E20251-0; E20251-2 (20251C) an eagle or thunderbird design bracelet decorated in the same style as E20251-0. Per Robin K. Wright and Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, E20251-0 and E20251-2 appear to have been made by Geneskelos. Wright and Bunn-Marcuse doubt that Geneskelos made E20251-1. E20251-0 is Fig. 39, E20251-1 is Fig. 41 and E20251-2 is Fig. 40, all on p. 68 of Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

From card: "For dancing. Bear? See U.S.N.M Report 1888, pl. LIX, fig. 313, p. 330. See Fig. 46, p. 194 of Bill Holm, "Will the Real Charles Edensaw Please Stand Up?", in _The World Is As Sharp As A Knife_; British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria; 1981. Rattle is attributed there to Haida carver Tom Price." Rattle was formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 29. Exhibit label identified it as a rattle in the form of a bear.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE. (DUPLICATE CARD. COPIED FROM CATALOG). LABEL: "HAIDA INDIANS, BRITISH COLUMBIA".Argillite clay-type portrait pipe; human figure with bone head reclining on stem behind bowl.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?

Appears to be a ship-motif argillite panel pipe.

FROM CARD: "20258 & 20259 IDENTIFIED [in MARCH, 1979] BY PETER MACNAIR, B.C. PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, VICTORIA, AS MADE BY CHARLES EDENSHAW. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD [for E20257 through 20259], 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL: "NAPKIN RINGS.---MADE OF THIN SILVER BANDS, WITH EXTERIORS ENGRAVED WITH VARIOUS FIGURES. HAIDAH INDIANS. DIAM., 1 1/2 INS. HEIGHT, 1 7/16 INS. CASSIAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN FOR CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, 1876. MADE BY HAIDAH INDIANS UNDER DIRECTION OF MR. SULLIVAN, GOLD COMMISSIONER OF DOMINION OF CANADA. BURNISHED BY RUDOLPH, OF VICTORIA, B. C."E20258 and E20259 had been attributed to Charles Edenshaw by Peter Macnair in 1979. However, Robin Wright, 2013, attributes them as Haida, but by an unknown maker. Illus. Fig. 204, p. 180 in Wright, Robin Kathleen, Daina Augaitis, Robert Davidson, and James Hart. 2013. Charles Edenshaw. London: Black Dog Publishing. The napkin ring is attributed to an unknown maker rather than to Charles Edenshaw, which is discussed on pp. 180-181, and design is described as consisting of a winged human on one side, and a dog in a central cartouche on the other. "This napkin ring features a winged human perhaps inspired by figureheads on European ships, angel imagery, or by the many Haida stories of human transformation."