FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP, ITS ENDS SCARFED AND STITCHED TOGETHER WITH A TWISTED THONG, ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND HELD BY WOODEN PEGS DRIVEN IN BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR LEGS OR EARS ARE FORMED ON EDGES OF SKIN AND TWO LINES OF TWISTED THONGS ARE LINES CROSS IN THE MIDDLE, THUS FORMING A HANDLE."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Drum and drumstick on loan.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=521, retrieved 4-24-2012: Drum, Tsimshian. Shamans played skin drums during healing rituals, while performers at potlatches and secret society ceremonies more often used wooden box drums. This instrument is a bent wooden hoop covered by thin deer hide, with crossed rawhide holding-straps in back. The drum stick depicts a killer whale in human form, a tall dorsal fin projecting from its head.

FROM CARD: "SHALLOWER THAN PRECEDING. GRAY GRANITE, RATHER POORLY FINISHED."

FROM CARD: "20656-7. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; P1. 31, FIG. 161; P. 286."FROM CARD: "HALIBUT HOOK.---LARGEST TYPE. MADE FROM THE FORKED BRANCH OF A TREE, DRESSED DOWN TO NEAT DIMENSIONS. IRON BARB; CARVED WOODEN FLOAT. CAPABLE OF BRINGING UP HALIBUT WEIGHING FROM 50 TO 120 POUNDS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYANSTOCK), FORT SIMPSON, B. C. 20,656. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=690, retrieved 4-24-2012: Berry dish or bowl. Wooden bowls held the fruits of the land - crabapples, cranberries, blueberries, and other foods, dried and mixed with seal or fish oil to preserve them for the winter ceremonial season. Potlatch hosts served berries to their guests in carved wooden bowls, large trays, and even empty canoes. Grooves carved at the corners of this bowl mimic the bent edges of birch-bark baskets that Skeena River people used before making their legendary migration to the coast, led by the great shaman Devoured by Martens. "This is a very simple feast bowl, also called a square or high-end bowl. It is made of alder. Carved "wrinkles" at the corners represent folds on the birch-bark baskets that people used in the interior, before they moved to the coast." - David Boxley (Tsimshian), 2009.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=527, retrieved 3-31-2012: Halibut hook. Buoyant yellow cedar wood was used for the upper arms of halibut hooks, dense alder for the lower. This hook has an iron barb, on which octopus was placed as bait.

From card: "From Timothy Harris, 1925. Forked wood, one side handle, other shorter, has steel blade lashed in with cloth & rawhide. Older ones had stone blades. Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia, May 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

The paint is red, black, and blue.