FROM CARD: "LONG HANDLE CARVED"

From Card: "Totem pole. 3 pieces. Collector's comment: '1 large totem pole or heraldic carving made by the Bella Bella Indians, B. C. The combination is a pictograph which illustrates the artist's idea of some mythical legend. As a general thing, these legends are rendered differently by each artist either in delineation or combination and unless the artist himself gives the explanation the story is difficult to be correctly obtained'. -- 1 Dec., 1884 James G. Swan. 9/8/70 - 9/20/70 Loaned to Nat. Gallery of Art."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. A chief would have the totem pole model when speaking in large groups and bang it four times to gain the attention of the crowd. The depicted figures are the ancestors from the owner's personal story. He cannot tell his own story because it would be bragging, so another speaker tells it for him. It is very much a sort of 'talking stick'.

Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk) and Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. These types of fans are used ceremonially during dances to welcome animals at the beginning and end of potlatches. This fan depicts a bird.

STONE PAINT MORTAR, DIVIDED IN MIDDLE INTO 2 SECTIONS, WITH REMNANTS OF RED PAINT IN ONE SECTION AND BLUE PAINT IN THE OTHER. Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia May 18, 1964. Loan returned 2012.

Listed on page 41 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". Listed under incorrect number, 20361.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60, PL. 29, NO. 3; P. 48."Listed on page 116 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "The Spindle".

From card: "Maul club carved wood. Design sea eagle and whale. Apparently Chinese characters carved on club."

FROM CARD: "RED, BLACK, BLUE FOR COLORING MASK."

FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING BLOCK OF WOOD DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES ALONG ITS MAJOR AXIS. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SO THAT WHEN LASHED TOGETHER THERE IS A CONTINUOUS AIR CHAMBER FROM UPPER END TO WITHIN A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF LOWER END. THE HALVES ARE LASHED TOGETHER AT UPPER END AND AGAIN HALF WAY OF THE TOTAL LENGTH, WHEN THE SMALL OR MOUTH END IS BLOWN INTO STRONGLY THE PRESSURE CAUSES THE LOWER END TO OPEN AND VIBRATE, ALLOWING THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, CAUSING A HARSH SOUND. THE REV. F. W. GALPIN OF ENGLAND CALLS THIS KIND OF REED THE "RETREATING REED". PROF. MASON HAS GIVEN IT THE NAME "INVERTED DOUBLE REED" WHICH I PREFER. (E.H.H.)"

FROM CARD: "WOODEN BIRD'S HEAD WITH PAINTED BUCKSKIN CUT IN FORM OF BODY, TAIL, AND WINGS ATTACHED TO BACK OF MASK. LOANED: 4/30/1965. THE TEXTILE MUSEUM. RETURNED: . LOANED: 4/18/1967 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY. RETURNED: 12/13/1967. LOAN DATA: VERY FRAGILE, COPPER LOOSE. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 9 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---CAP OF WOOD, CARVED HEMISPHERICALLY TO FIT HEAD, AND SURMOUNTED BY CARVED AND PAINTED EYES AND BEAK OF BIRD PROJECTING FORWARD. EYES AND MOUTH OF COPPER; TEETH OF ROWS OF SMALL WHITE SHELLS. ATTACHED TO HEAD AND PENDANT BEHIND ARE PAINTED WINGS, BODY, AND TAIL OF BIRD CUTFROM SKIN OR PARCHMENT. INDIANS NEAR BELLA BELLA. WORN IN NATIVE DANCES. LENGTH, TOTAL, 33 INS. LENGTH OF WOOD, 16 1/2 INS. HEIGHT, 5 3/4 INS. WIDTH, 7 1/2 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,571. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT HOOYEH (THE CROW), WHICH IS CONNECTED WITH THEIR TRADITIONS AND HELD BY THEM IN HIGH REGARD." ILLUS. FIG. 90, P. 115, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY, BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS HEADDRESS MASK REPRESENTING EAGLE, CIRCA 1860.'EAGLE MASK WITH PAINTED TRAILER PROBABLY MADE BY HEILTSUK ARTIST KNOWN BY HIS ENGLISH NAME AS CAPTAIN CARPENTER. - BILL MCLENNAN, MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 12 APR 1996.Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. The teeth are small shells from the sea snail harvested at the beach. It is made from some sort of animal hide and representations of eagles are found through out. This piece is typical of artist, Captain Carpenter. The eye socket and eyebrow appear to be a mixture of northern and Heiltsuk sculpting.