Incised and carved relief decoration on both sides. Hole for suspension has been drilled through at top.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 100, PG. 3. IDENTIFIED THERE AS BARK PROCESSING TOOL OF PECKED STONE."

FROM CARD: "WOODEN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HARPOONS, LINES, AND FLOATS (3 MODELS).-HARPOON-HEADS HAVE COPPER BLADES, WITH IVORY WINGS OR BARBS; LINES, MADE OF TWISTED FIBER, SERVED WITH TWINE; FLOATS, WOOD CARVED IN IMITATION OF SEALSKIN BUOYS. MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS. NEAH BAY, WASHINGTON TER. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Anthropology catalogue ledger book notes that part of this object was exchanged with Trocadero Museum, July 1885.See Cat. 94 p. 188 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.224, one wooden float model with harpoon line, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E4131.

From card: "EAGLE DESIGN ON TOP. SHAMROCK DESIGN NEAR CLASP. James Swan collection?"

FROM CARD: "REPRESENTS BIRD, PROBABLY RAVEN. LONG BILL. PAINTED GREEN, RED, WHITE AND BLACK. 9/1962--BILL HOLM CONSIDERED THIS TO BE NOT CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SOUTHERN GROUPS AND IF GOTTEN IN THE PLACE MENTIONED IT MUST HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FROM THE NORTHERN GROUP (RAE)."