FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES AND EACH HALF EXCAVATED FROM SMALL END TO WITHIN HALF AN INCH OF LARGE END. THE HALVES ARE BOUND TOGETHER WITH LEATHER THONGS, AT SMALL END AND AT MIDDLE; BLOWING IN SMALL END CAUSES THE LARGE END BELOW MIDDLE LASHING TO VIBRATE AND ALLOWS THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, THUS CAUSING A SOUND. PL. 43, NOS. 9 & 10; P. 48,? (HOUGH, HIST. OF INVENTIONS)."

FROM CARD: "WOOD; PAINTED BLACK AND RED."

FROM CARD: "CUT IN TWO. HOUSE FRONT. (TSIMSIAN) PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS. 5 MAY 1966: THIS SPECIMEN MISSING FROM COLLECTION. GEP. 9 MAY 1966: SPECIMEN RELOCATED. GEP."

From card: "0f bear claws and quills of eagles fastened to a band of moose hide. The claws are perforated at the tips and a cord is run through them holding them in order when the crown is worn. The quills are in three bunches forming unique rattle ornaments. Purchase Order #63457."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PlL VI, FIG. 11, P. 260. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENT CATALOGUE; FIG. 62, P.60. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents caption identifies as an iron ornament formed into bifurcated scrolls, and notes that his motif was popular on Athabaskan knife handles. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABLE WITH CARD: "HAIR ORNAMENT.--MADE OF STEEL, HIGHLY POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. THIS FORM IS VERY ANCIENT AND VALUED AT ONE OR TWO SLAVES. WORN BY YOUNG GIRLS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYAN STOCK), NASS R., B. C. 10,313. COLLECTED BY LIEUT. F. W. RING, U. S. A. [sic, this should be Lt. F. M. Ring]. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."

Basket E20847, identified as Hutsnuwu Tlingit from Admiralty Island, is Swan original # 68. Ledger book indicates that Catalogue #s E20906, E20907, and E20908 are also original # 68. Accession record entry indicates the basket # E20847 contained these toy spoons, dolls, and dish (E20906 - 8), therefore all these objects are being stored together inTlingit for now. Note that E20908 had been first catalogued as Tsimshian (probably based on Ft. Simpson identification in Anthropology ledger book of paddles E20902 and 3).

From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Bracelet - Horn, inlaid with pearl shell, Haliotis kamschatkensis [i.e. abalone]. Nasses Indians, near Fort Simpson. Greatest diam. 2 1/2 ins. Least diam. 1 1/2 ins. British Columbia, 1870. Collected by Lieut. F. W.[sic, should be M.] Ring, U.S.A."