FROM CARD: "ONE (1) EXCHANGE: MR. GEORGE G. HEYE, 52 BROADWAY, N.Y.C. 11/12/1908. MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN CAT. NO. 2/376."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.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XX, FIGS. 46, P. 185." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL MASK.---MADE OF WOOD; OUTLINES IN RED AND BLACK PAINT. BITS OF BUFFALO PELT SERVE AS EYEBROWS. LABRET SET IN LOWER LIP. WORN IN DANCES. LENGTH, 10 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 9 1/2 INCHES. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (TSIMSHIAN STOCK), FORT SIMPSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 20,581. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THE CUSTOM OF WEARING A LABRET IN A SLIT CUT IN THE LOWER LIP PREVAILS AMONG THE WOMEN OF THE TRIBES OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. IT IS A TOKEN OF RANK AND SOCIAL POSITION. THE LABRETS ARE GENERALLY MADE OF WOOD, IVORY, OR BONE, AND VARY IN SIZE FROM FOUR INCHES LONG BY THREE INCHES BROAD DOWN TO THE PROPORTIONS OF A SMALL SLEEVE BUTTON. THE CUSTOM IS FAST DYING OUT."

From card: "Like 274419. A sea otter canoe. Fred. de Laguna, 1963".

From Card: "Masts and poles (5) transferred back to Division of Ethnology from the Division of Engineering, Jan 25, 1934 [Canoe model is out on] Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia [Museo Nacional de las Culturas, Mexico City], May 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

Listed on page 48 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)".

This one (the larger of the two hats) was formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 29. Exhibit label identified it as: "Rain hat of woven spruce roots."