From card: "Cord made by Coquettle Indians." From old museum tag with artifact: Kawquettle Indians, Vancouver Island; Cord made of inner bark of Thuja gigantea [a.k.a. Thuja plicata, or the western or Pacific red cedar]; Dr. T. T. Minor US. Rev Str Wyanda [sic, should be Wayanda]."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 133; P. 486."

FROM CARD: "BIRD'S HEAD WITH A VERY LONG BEAK WITH A MOVABLE JAW, WITH LONG STRINGS OF CEDAR BARK HANGING FROM LOWER PART OF HEAD AND TUFTED ON THE TOP OF THE HEAD. PAINTED BLACK EXCEPT FRONT PART OF THE HEAD, AND THE EYE, NOSTRIL AND EDGES OF THE BEAK OUTLINED IN RED. USED IN THE FOURTH DANCE. REFER TO: USNM. REP. 1895, PL. 78, P. 449. ILLUS.: P. 67, PL.30, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982. LOANED TO RENWICK 12/3/81. RETURNED 1983. CANNIBAL CRANE MASK, CA. 1880-94. NAKWOKTAK KWAKIUTL INDIANS; FORT RUPERT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. CEDAR; RED, WHITE, AND BLACK PAINT; SHREDDED CEDAR BARK; NATIVE CEDAR TWINE; IRON PLATE AND RIVETS 38 1/2 X 61 1/2 X 7 (97.8 X 156.2 X 17.9) NMNH 169106; COLLECTED BY FRANZ BOAS. THE KWAKIUTL SAW MYRIAD FORCES AT WORK IN THE WORLD, ALL NEEDING TO BE BALANCED. THROUGH RITUAL THIS BALANCE WAS ACHIEVED. THE CANNIBAL CRANE WAS A MYTHICAL CREATURE THAT PREYED UPON MEN, JUST AS MAN PREYS UPON OTHER CREATURES FOR HIS FOOD. DURING THE LONG, COMPLEX WINTER CEREMONIALS, THESE CREATURES APPEARED IN THE HUMAN WORLD, THREATENING TO BRING DESTRUCTION TO THE HUMAN SOCIAL ORDER. TO ALLAY THEM, HUMANS REAFFIRMED THROUGH THEIR RESPONSIBILITES TO THE SPIRITS. CONT.SEE CARD.According to Marianne Nicolson (artist/researcher), Brian Nicolson and Mike Willie of the Dzawada'enuxw First Nation of British Columbia, "this represents a huxwhukw, a type of crane which may be extinct."Ho'xhoku Mask.

FROM CARD: "OF BEAR DANCE OF THE GUSGEMOX. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 112-C; P. 474."

From card: "Front represents "Milky Way, side, the fabulous? A "hamatsa" head ring (see Boas, USNM AR 1895, p. 437ff) Illustrated in Boas p. 442, fig. 63 also in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 18, fig. 70, p. 272."

From card: "Large double mask of wood ornamented with the fur of the black bear--from Kingcomb Inlet, the coast of British Columbia--the Kwakiutl people. It was known as "Zuno" and is suposed to represent a double dealing man who gave most liberally at feasts but was not to be trusted. It was last used at a feast given at Fort Rupert about 1899. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as a double faced Dzoonokwa, Kwakiutl, collected at Kingcomb Inlet, British Columbia, about 1900."Emmons describes this mask as being for sale in a letter filed filed in accession 39904, letter dated May 28, 1902 and sent from Victoria, B.C.. He lists it as being from Fort Rupert (presumably because that is where it was last used.)

From card: "Carved in crouching position. Neat work. Teeth, eyes, nose and brow inlaid with abalone shell. Painted red. Short bands."Though catalogued as #5 in the collection, and just assumed to be from Alaska, this object is actually #6 on the detailed list filed in the accession record. This list describes it as: "Ceremonial club, from Blunden Harbor [sic, this is Blunden Harbour, which is in British Columbia, Canada], the Kwakiutl tribe, the property of Chief Seaweid [a.k.a. Siwid or Seaweed]. It is carved as the head of a wolf, ornamentally painted and inlaid with haliotis shell. It was used to charm the salmon + halibut back or to bring them in the spring, or when they went fishing and failed to make a catch. A fire was built and they would take the halibut hook a[nd] char the end over the fire, and the club was used as a wand during the feast and dance."Listed on page 42 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. 129; P. 484."