REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "MANUFACTURED BY ANTHRO LAB."No catalog card found in card fileLedger book says that the mortar is Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) and from Alaska (an apparent mismatch), but the original mortar, catalog number 220186, has been re-identified as possibly from Skeena River, BC. See catalog number 220186.

Per June 30, 1888 invoice in accession file: "Specimen of giant kelp. This is prepared by the Indians for holding oil, which toughens the material, making it assume a leathery structure. When fully prepared it is as tough and as pliable as buck skin, and can be used for fancy work, such as pocket books and port-monnaes. Its manufacture has not been attempted, but this specimen shows its capabilities. If moistened it will show what can be done with it." Per June 18, 1888 Swan letter in accession file: "A piece of prepared kelp showing the possibilities of its commercial value. prepared by J.G. Swan".

From card: "This mask represents a bears head." Mask has movable eyes and lower jaw.

FROM CARD: "2ND HEAD LAGAE OF XANYADGAMGILOS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 88; P. 454."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. ON PLATE IX (P. 163), BAE ANN. REPT. FOR 1882. DALL (P. 101) ATTRIBUTES IT "NEAR LEVUKA, FRIENDLY ISLANDS" (PROPERLY LIFUKA, TONGA). HOWEVER BUCK (ARTS AND CRAFTS OF COOK IS., BISHOP MUS. BULL 179, P. 506) ASSERTS NO MASKS EXISTED IN TONGA. THIS MASK APPEARS RATHER TO HAVE NORTHWEST PACIFIC COAST AFFINITIES.--RIESENBERG, 5/5/59. 5/31/59 A LETTER AND PHOTO TO ROBERT B. INVERARITY, WAS ANSWERED SAYING THAT HE WAS SURE THAT IT WAS FROM THE KWAKIUTL, AND SIMILAR SPECIMEN ONCE IN HEYE MUS., N.Y.C. THE WOOD HAS BEEN DEFINITELY IDENTIFIED BY WM. WATKINS AS SPRUCE, POSSIBLY SITKA VARIETY. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."

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".

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 91; P. 456."