FROM CARD: "SPOON.---MADE OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT HORN. THE HANDLE IS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE HORN IN ITS NATURAL SHAPE, ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC FIGURES CARVED IN RELIEF. THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOLD. THE COLOR OF THE BOWL AT THE UPPER END IS BLACK BUT GRADUALLY SHADES INTO A YELLOW. ENTIRE SPOON MADE OF ONE HORN. LENGTH, 13 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 4 1/4 INCHES. INDIANS OF ALASKA. 23,432. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. ENTERED, JUNE 12, 1876."

Columbia River/Wasco/Wishram style horn bowl.

TRIANGULAR CROSS SECTION, BARBED ON ALL THREE EDGES. DEEP GROOVE IN ONE PLANE, INCISED LINES WITH TRACES OF RED PAINT ON OTHER TWO.

Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies donor as J. (John) Varden, though no accession number is identified. Object was catalogued in 1874.

From card: "Grooved; pecked into shape and edge ground. See Niblack, 1890, pl. XXIII. Collector says: "Presented at Cluhwon [spelled Kluhwon in accession file ledger sheet], Oct. 1915, by Chief Yilhawk of the Chilkat tribe."Cluhwon/Kluhwon may be Klukwan? "Chief Yilhawk of the Chilkat tribe" may be one of the men variously called Yel-hawk, Yeal-hawk, and, more correctly, Yeilxaak.

From card: "Two-end dagger".

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID, CARVED TO REPRESENT THE "THUNDERBIRD PAINTED, AND PEGGED WITH TUFTS OF HAIR (NOW GONE). STRONGLY RECURVED BEAK. PAINT COLORS: GREEN, VERMILLION, BLACK. (WOOD WHERE EXPOSED BENEATH PAINT IS CRUMBLING) NEG. NO. 43,228 (FRONT) NEG. NO. 43,228-A PROFILE-RIGHT SIDE) NEG. NO. 8374."Appears to be a set consisting of a war helmet and visor or collar, rather than a dance mask.