FROM CARD: "DANCE RATTLE OR CLAPPER CARVED FROM WOOD IN THE SHAPE OF A SHORT THICK PADDLE, SPLIT LONGITUDINALLY ACROSS ITS WIDTH. ONE SECTION IS SOLID WITH ITS HANDLE; THE OTHER IS HINGED TO HANDLE WITH A NOTCH BONE SPRING. THE FLAT SIDES OF EACH SECTION ARE HOLLOWED OUT LIKE A SPOON. THE WOOD IS STAINED BLACK. ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 136, USNM, PL. 8-J, P. 121."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NM REPORT 1884, PL. VI, FIGS. 9, 10, P. 306; USNM AR 1888, FIG. 185-6, AND PL. 36, FIG. 180, P. 314; REPORT, 1902, FIG. 155; P. 426. TAG ON ARTIFACT SAYS SALISH, FRASER RIVER."See USNM AR for 1902, p. 426, where basket is identified as "procured from Sitka [sic], Alaska Indians by J.J. McLean, to which place it had doubtless drifted in trade from the Fraser River (British Columbia, Canada) Region." While the basket was actually catalogued as from "Hoonia" (i.e. Hoonah), not Sitka, the identification of the basket as Fraser River Salish type seems correct and it has been stored with that collection.

FROM CARD: "OF WOOD. SHAPED AND ORNAMENTALLY CARVED TO REPRESENT A SEA LION. CARRIED IN HUNTING AND FISHING CANOE TO KILL SEALS OR LARGE FISH BEFORE HAULING THEM INTO THE CANOE. LENT TO THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.