From card: "Presented by Ellsworth [a.k.a. Ellswarsh], a chief. See U.S.N.M. Report 1888, p. 446, pl. 29. A rectangular box open at top. When used as a drum it is held on one corner, the open top towards the drummer and its sides beaten. The sides and ends are one piece of wood. Three triangular grooves are cut across the piece at the inside where the corners are to come the wood is bent a right angle. What splinters occur are speared off, giving rounded corners on the outside. The sides are painted with their conventional designs of the thunder bird, masks, etc. Used as a drum in their ceremonies." Note re photos: Neg. #s 96-20092 shows side 1, and 96-20093 shows side 2, of this box drum's painted sides.Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, Ellsworth or Ellswarsh may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.

FROM CARD: "WHALE RIB. LENT TO MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012. Identified as Marine Mammal/Walrus bone, rather than whale, during preparation of affidavits on organic materials for Mexico loan return, 2011.

From card: "Made from piece of heavy sheet copper hammered, crudely formed. Probably from ship bottom."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 1 bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow (of 2) included on loan.From card: "Bow illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 26, fig. 114; p. 286."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=619 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Bow and arrow, Haida. Hunters shot ducks and geese with blunt-tipped wooden arrows, and they continued to use the bow and arrow on some occasions even after firearms were introduced. Haida bows were made of yew wood and relatively broad in the middle, tapering to the tips. Men carried their arrows in quivers made of seal or sea otter skin.

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=634 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Spoon Open-work figures carved from pieces of black mountain goat horn and inlaid with abalone shell cover the handle of this elaborate ceremonial ladle. The bowl was carved, steamed, and molded from a single mountain sheep horn. Haida artists excelled in this style, even though the raw materials had to be obtained from the Tsimshian, who could hunt sheep and goats in their mainland territories. Large horn ladles were used at feasts and passed to guests for eating preserved berries from wooden bowls. Feast spoons were owned by clans rather than individuals. "Amongst the Haida, certain shapes were for certain foods, even our horn spoons. The little black horn spoons were used for eating seaweed, but the white ones were for halibut…When a chief came to our meal, my mother took out a fancy spoon with carving, and he used it. We were never allowed to touch it, just him." - Delores Churchill (Haida), 2005