From card: "Good condition. Twined overlay basketry weave with decorative panels in meandered spurs." With lid.

Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify this spoon as Bella Bella. As of 2010, culture in database identifies the spoon as Tlingit, however the source of the Tlingit identification is unknown. The spoon is therefore being listed as both Tlingit and Bella Bella for now.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. In order to make the spoons, they look for parts in the alder tree that have a natural curve. Everyone sat around the big cooking pot and used them for spooning their soup out. Alder wood spoons are for everyday use and horn spoons are used for feasts. Usually when you take on your chiefdomship, or you have a feast, this is one of the items that would sit on top of the bentwood box or it would be publicly handed over.

From old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label stored with artifact: "Strike-a-light - Pouch, made of the skins from the heads of, probably, the dog, rudely sewed together. It contains tinder of moss and a lump of pyrites. Width 6 1/2 inches. Sitka, Alaska."

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM (GA'U) OF THE HOONYAS, KOLUSCHAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF WOOD; HEAD, OF BLADDER, IN THREE PIECES, SOAKED, STRETCHED AND HELD BY PEGS DRIVEN INTO THE BACK OF THE HOOP. A RAWHIDE THONG ON THE BACK OF THE HOOP SERVES AS A HANDLE. DIAMETER, 9 INCHES. ALASKA. 60,222. COLLECTED, 1881, BY JOHN J. MCLEAN."

Per Anthropology catalogue ledger book and Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 610, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford. and object is from Sitka Tlingit. field catalogue describes as "War club (broken) formerly used by Thlinkets, Sitka."