From card: "Bear, wolf, salmon, and frog motifs. 1/23/67: The high relief figures on the top section of this argillite box no longer exist. The top was located in two pieces separate of the box during 1966. Original condition illus. [pl. 64, p. 59] in Barbeau, Haida Carvers in Argillite, NMC #139. Barbeau, p. 58, attributes this specimen to Charley Edensaw [Charles Edenshaw] of Massett. Collected October 9, 1883. "The word 'Gaowtlins' on the top is the name of the Haida Indian who carved and made this casket." - Swan's inventory and descriptive catalogue. See for additional information on decorations. Repaired at Conservation 5/11/73." Illus. fig. 5.19, p. 252 and discussed p. 248-9 in Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright attributes to maker John Robson of Skidegate. She notes that "Caowtlins" is inscribed on the lid (lid is cracked across the letter "A"), and Caowtlins is a form of Robson's Haida name.

From card: ""... with moveable [movable] eyes and mouth, ancient." Swan's desc. cat. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Spirit Mask - the Oolalla, Haida, collected 1883 at Tanu."

Resembles a New England round finger pantry box. with tacked/nailed joints. Box lid has two attached labels in James G. Swan's hand: "No. 38 35[?]¢. Box of yew with cedar top + bottom, made by a Haida Indian in imitation of box from old whale ship", and " No. , Made at Massett B.C. Collected by J. G. Swan July 9/[18]83".

From card: "Handle shod with etched copper and tipped with bone carving representing totemic animals; abalone shell inlay; copper rivets. Original # 1907 may refer to a date rather than an original number."Old label glued into the spoon bowl says: "Alaska spoon bought on Alaska trip Coburn's KAZ 1907 PBIE". See also E360925 and E360926 which have original tags which also reference Coburn's.

From card: "Carved wood. Design: The wood picker [sic, should be "woodpecker" per catalogue ledger book]. The body and handle are divided vertically into halves, usually they are divided horizontally."

Basket has label glued on bottom that says "Joseph Yeltatsi [presumably maker or original owner?], Jackson [i.e. Howkan], Alaska." Identified as Haida style of manufacture by Deborah Ann Head, 6-3-2009. She also notes that Yeltatsi is a Haida last name, and Howkan is a Haida area.

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST, 1983.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label. Written on this pipe in old handwriting: "N. W. Coast Ex. Ex. by R. R. Waldron." This may mean that Richard Russell Waldron, purser, USS Vincennes, was the collector of this pipe.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: "WOOD INLAID WITH IVORY."