From card: "Inlaid with bone. Carved from fine black slate. Decoration two snakes in relief around border; edge flat inlaid with triangular pieces of bone. In concave of bowl running design of wheel and three leaves; circular area in bottom bordered with rope, middle area a sunburst set with triangles of bone. The work is like that on Wilkes and Gibbs pipes from Puget Sound and Vancouver I. Probably Russian influence. Specimen is old and good."

From card: Northwest Coast, Haida?? Possibly collected by James G. Swan?? Painted blue motifs similar to "Emmons", 1888, Pl. LII, attributed to 'Johnnie Kit Elswa', a Haida Indian. Johnny Kit Elswa was Swan's assistant and helped him collect objects, as well as being an artist himself. - F. Pickering, 2009This may indeed have been drawn by Johnny Kit Elswa. Compare the style to examples of his work in The Dr. Franz R. and Mrs. Kathryn M. Stenzel collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Series II. See in particular "The man in the moon. Haida mythology. Pen-and-ink drawing", https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2003286 .An illustration showing the same design as on this object is visible in a Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Neg. No. 16462, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_008 .

From card: "Red on blue octopus motif. A, B, C. trimmed with puffin beaks."

From card: "Made of walrus tooth, used by old Nokutsoot of Masset and sold by him to me [Swan.]" See also related object E88748.

FROM CARD: "THESE ARTICLES WERE RETURNED FROM THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION WITHOUT MARKS. 1 ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; P1. 25, NO. 3; P48. *STORED AS MAKAH (NOOTKA) NW COAST BECAUSE OF RESEMBLANCE TO USNM #4122 (MAKAH-J.G.SWAN)."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Fig. 75, p. 273. Red on blue motifs, poncho type. killer whale motifs. Collector's tag: "Blue blanket embroidered with the Scana or Killer [killer whale; orca] in red cloth. Skidegate, B.C. 1883."

From card: "Shank of hook carved - human figures."