From card: "Membrane tightly stretched over a wooden hoop and tacked on the edge. Head painted with totemic design."

FROM CARD: "WOOD, WITH BLACK, RED AND GREEN PIGMENT, AND FIBER LASHINGS. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 183. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 4, PG. 612. LOANED TO THE NAT'L GALLERY OF ART 10-20-72. FROM: P. 84, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG, RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1974, OBJECT ILLUSTRATED ON SAME PAGE:'CHEST, WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF, PAINTED BLACK AND RED; KERFED AND PEGGED, LENGTH: 38. TSIMSHIAN?, FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, COLLECTED BY GEORGE GIBBS.'"This box/chest is visible (on floor to left of aisle) on display in a photograph taken at the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Interior view, Department of the Interior exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring archeological and anthropological artifacts, prepared by Bureau of Indian Affairs and Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 64, Folder 01, Image No. SIA_000095_B64_F01_029. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_400427 .

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

FROM CARD: "OWL."Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.