This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 23, fig. 91; p. 278, also in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 60; Pl. 15, no. 4; p. 48."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=618 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Adze House and canoe builders did their heavy woodworking with stone-bladed adzes. The grooved blades were basalt, greenstone or jade, lashed to a handle made from a forked tree branch. On great occasions such as a house-building potlatch, the host might carry an adze to symbolize the wealth he had achieved by building and trading canoes.

From card: "Carved from mountain sheep horn."

From card: "One 10" boat paddle and one sail boat thwart 5 3/4" long (parts of northern type canoe) were transferred back to the Division of Ethnology from the Division of Engineering, January 25, 1934. 5/9/66 Summarized from fragments of a 'Swan' data card: This model and others are made to exact proportions of full length Haida canoes. They are exact representations of modern (1883) Haida canoes. GEP"

Card says "Exchange: Mr. Karl, Australia, February 9, 1898 / Still in USNM collections 1/15/[19]42 JW". Originally catalogued as canoe model, mat, sails, paddles, etc.. 3 parts were found in 2005: Canoe model, and 2 paddles.From Card: " Model of ancient Haida canoe with mat sails as formerly used by the Haidas of Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. The sail was reefed or furled by turning the mast around and winding up the mat. This model made by Kwulka-ass or Johnson at Massett, B.C., July 1883. It represents the famous war canoe of the ancient Haidas but is now superceded by the modern model with both sails of cotton cloth or old flour sacks. Mats are occasionally but very rarely used. Purchased at Massett, B.C. July 2, 3883. James G. Swan."Per John Hudson, 11-2-2010, this is a model of the type of canoe called a Head canoe.