From card: "Gift of Mr. Deasy, 1925. Flat backed, black slate, on rectangular base, carved into 3 relief figures - at bottom a long tongued man surmounted by a frog-faced man holding a half-moon on knees and topped by a vulture [sic]. Not well polished."

Listed on page 41 and 43 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". Small food dish on p 41; carved dish on p 43. One of these is misnumbered, since 88862 refer to only one object, but cannot determine which one is misnumbered (or what its correct number was) without more information.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 172. 20,857 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73."SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.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.