FROM CARD: "HANDLE CARVED WITH THREE IMAGES REPRESENTING TOTEMIC ANIMALS. LENT TO MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA 5/18/64." Loan returned 2012.

FROM CARD: "HAIDA DUGOUT CANOE. IN GOOD ORDER."

FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S FACE; PAINTED WITH DULL RED STRIPE AROUND RIGHT SIDE OF FACE; NARROW LINES ON LEFT CHEEK; WEARING LABRET IN LOWER LIP. ILLUS. BAE 3RD ANNUAL REPORT, PL. XX, FIG. 45, P. 185. 4-17-67 LOAN DATA: 6 HOLES ON REVERSE, EARS DAMAGED, SPLIT UNDER CHIN. LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 4-18-67. RETURNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 12-13-67. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 236."Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Entered into Anthropology Catalogue ledger book January 10, 1867. If not Exploring Expedition, Jane suggests it may have come from the National Institute, or from the War Department, or it might be that it was collected for Spencer Baird by James G. Swan?MASK REPRESENTING WOMAN WITH LABRET, ARTIST UNKNOWN. ILLUS. FIG. 43, P. 69, DISCUSSED PP. 66-67, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS MASK REPRESENTING DJILAKONS, HAIDA, C. 1830. [Djilakons, the founding ancestor of the Haida Eagle moiety.]Illus. Fig. 53a, p. 58 and 53b, p. 59 in King, J. C. H. 1979. Portrait masks from the Northwest Coast of America. [New York]: Thames and Hudson. Identified there (p. 58) as: "Haida mask of a woman wearing a labret. ... red, green and black facial painting ... c. 1825-1850."

FROM CARD: "$10.00. THE BEAR, BEAVER & OWL." SWAN'S ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD IDENTIFIES THIS OBJECT AS "CARVED TOTEMIC COLUMN. THE BEAR, BEAVER AND OWL. IN FRONT OF CHIEFS HOUSE, KLEMMAKOAN, PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO, ALASKA - KYGANI BRANCH OF THE HAIDA FAMILY OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B.C." KLEMMAKOAN (THE NAME SWAN USED FOR KLINKWAN) WAS MISTRANSCRIBED IN TYPED ACCESSION LIST AND IN ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOGUE LEDGER BOOK AS BLEMMAKOAN. - F. PICKERING 6-23-1999

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 AND WOOD."

From card: "Presented by Ellswarsh, chief of Skidgate. Bent bowl; wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. From: Page 68, Boxes and Bowls catalogue; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page.: Bent bowl. Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Length: 16 1/4". Haida, Skidegate, British Columbia. Presented by Ellswarsh, Chief of Skidegate, to James G. Swan, October 1883."Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, "Ellswarsh" may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.