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FROM CARD: "BEAR, CARRYING COPPER ON HIS BACK."Listed on page 46 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 (Tools)".
FROM CARD: "NECK LAGAE OF XANYADGAMGILOS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 87; P. 454."
FROM CARD: "1ST HEADRING OF XANYADGAMGILOS. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 86; P. 453."
Detail of handle is illus. Fig. 393, p. 284 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: "The handle ... of the Haida spoon features a dragonfly holding a man in its mouth. Though collected from the Haida in the Queen Charlotte Islands, the treatment is reminiscent of Tlingit work, in which representations of the dragonfly also occur."