FROM CARD: "MODEL OF DUGOUT CANOE. NEG. NO. 2,409."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=589 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Canoe Model Haida master canoe builders were legendary, called Woodpeckers for the sound of their adzes as they felled and hollowed out the giant cedar trees of Haida Gwaii - the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. They filled the hollowed logs with water and hot stones to soften the wood, allowing the sides to be spread apart for a wider hull; then they inserted seats and attached separate bow and stern sections. The finished boats were up to 75 feet (23 m) long and equipped with cypress wood paddles, cedar bark lines, and stone anchors.

Attributed to Charles Edenshaw by M. Barbeau - see catalog card.From card: "Chest; argillite; carved in relief; non-Indian wood bottom. "Front and back, Hoorts, the bear; on the ends, Helinga, the thunderbird. Top, Wasko, the mythological wolf." Swan. Attributed to Charles Edenshaw by M. Barbeau. Oct. 1973. From the attached original card, it appears this item had been intended to be sent away in exchange, but the item is still in the museum collection. R. Elder. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 44, fig. 243, p. 319. Loaned Renwick Ga. 11-7-73, loan returned 8-24-76 ..." (continued, see cards.)Robin K. Wright, Burke Museum, says "I believe this argillite chest is by Zacherias Nicholas, formerly known as the “Master of the Chicago Settee”

FROM CARD: "ELABORATELY CARVED OF BLACK CLAY SLATE; THE FIGURE, PRESUMABLY OF A SEA CAPTAIN, DRESSED IN A FORMAL FROCKCOAT, WITH A VISORED CAP. THE FACE IS CARVED OF IVORY AND FASTENED INTO THE SLATE HEAD. *THIS NUMBER IS LISTED IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOGUE BOOKS AS BEING A SLATE PIPE. HOWEVER, IT IS TO BE USED FOR THIS SPECIMEN. HEAD BROKEN OFF; CAP BROKEN: REPAIRED, 3/13/51 RAEJR. RE-REPAIRED JULY, 1974. REPRODUCED BY ALVA STUDIO, OCTOBER, 1974."Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Object was entered into the Anthropology catalogue ledger book January 5, 1867. Per Jane Walsh, the argillite figure of a sea captain doesn't appear on any of the U. S. Exploring Expedition official lists of objects. Also, the U. S. Exploring Expedition only collected argillite pipes, and one argillite figure, a woman that we no longer have in the collections. The only thing we really know about the two captain figures (other one - formerly E2414 - is now in The National Museum of Denmark collections) is that they came into the SI in the 40 cart loads of material from the "Government Collections" in the Patent Office in 1858. So it could be they are from the National Institute, or from the War Department, or it might be that they were collected for Spencer Baird by James G. Swan.Per Stephen Loring, this sea captain figure probably depicts a Yankee sea-captain or so-called "Boston Man."