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FROM CARD: "A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75. LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988."
Listed on page 50 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: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Rather fine work and good form. Design flying birds."
From card: "Beak pouch of [blank on card] for storing lumps of pitch." It appears this may be made from a pelican beak?, per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 12-7-2009