"Complete outfit" including harpoon, floats, bailer, and paddles (paddles missing) is catalog numbers 72936-72940.From card: "Boat model carved from a single piece of wood, painted black around the edges. some red along the gunwales and end. Six wooden figures, all but two carved as part of boat, others separate and attached. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus. Crossroads of Continents catalogue [with E72937, E72938, and E38882]; Fig. 215, p. 170."This model is described on p. 888 of Collins' Boat Ms.. James Swan is quoted there as identifying maker of this boat as a Makah man named "Nat".

From card: "Two tapering pieces of wood hollowed out and joined. Reed, if any, missing."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), 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. This is thought to be a Tsetsaut society whistle. This whistle was used during the initiation of a person into Tsetaust society when they received an ancestral name. The initiates would be confined to the back of a house for a period of time prior to the potlatch. These whistles were used to summon the ancestors of the individual being initiated, and they would dance and a crest mask would appear with connection to that name. Traditionally the whistles would be hidden while played, long ago no one even knew where the sound came from. Even today, the whistles are never blown in front of people, it's all in secret. Additionally, they were never used as an everyday musical instrument, whistles were a very sacred ceremonial piece.

Identified as Twana type by Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007.

FROM CARD: "54093-54100. #54093 - 81 X 39. 54034 - 86 X 43. 54095 - 84 X 39. 54096 - 82 X 43. 54097 - 92 X 48. 54098 - 88 X 49. 54099 - 78 X 43. 54100 - 84 X 42. NO. 54097 SENT AS A GIFT TO PUBLIC MUSEUM, HARRIMAN, TENN., JUNE 27, 1922."

Toward the base of this totem pole model (directly under the Smithsonian catalogue number), is the word/name "Ebits" (the S is backwards). This name is probably a reference to the Tlingit man named Chief Ebbets (a.k.a. Ebbetts, Ebitts ... ) (1780 - 1880) and his wife Aanseet (Chief of All Women) (1800-1870). This model pole resembles the full size Tongass pole, carved circa 1870 to honor Aanseet, and taken from Tongass in 1899 and erected in Pioneer Square in Seattle. (For information on the pole in Seattle see http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/loc/id/1357; http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=Digital-Archives&page=People-of-the-North&cat=Native-Lives-and-Traditions&viewpost=2&ContentId=2659; and Robin K. Wright: Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast, http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/wright.html ).