FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED. DUP CARD ON ARCHEO. SPECIMENS NOT FOUND IN 4/48 WHEN ARCHEO. COLLS. FROM THIS AREA WERE CHECKED OVER. SOUNDS LIKE AN ETHNO. SPECIMEN IF FOUND PLEASE ADVISE ARCHEO. TO DESTROY, OR ANNOTATE CAT. CARD.MCB. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1M, PG. 2." Handbook caption identifies as a hafted stone maul.

HAS CATALOG CARD.

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 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "EAR-RING.---SILVER-PLATED BOB, HOOK AND CLASP, WITH BELL OR CONICAL-SHAPED PENDANT 1 1/2 INCHES LONG. HAI-DAH INDIANS, PRINCE OF WALES ISLANDS. LENGTH, 2 INCHES. ALASKA, 1875. 19,547. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "DESCRIPTION AND LEGEND ON REVERSE. COLLECTOR'S DESCRIPTION: "CARVED COLUMN LIKE......ERECTED IN FRONT OF CHIEF RESIDENCES QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B.C. LEGEND. THE LOWER FIGURE IS THE GRIZZLY BEAR HOORTS. ON HIS HEAD IS THE CODFISH (MYTHOLOGICAL) KAHATTA INDICATED BY THE TEETH AND SCALES. THE UPPER FIGURE IS THE BEAVER TSING. HIS HEAD IS SURMOUNTED BY THE HAT WORN BY CHIEF TO INDICATE THEIR RANK. IT IS COMPOSED OF BASKET WORK AND THE NUMBER OF THESE INDICATES THE DEGREE OF RANK ATTAINED BY THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE IN FRONT OF WHICH THE COLUMN IS SET UP. IT IS HEARALDIC AND INDICATES THE TOTEM OR FAMILY CONNECTIONS. JAMES G. SWAN, PORT TOWNSEND, W. T. JULY 6TH, 1882." IDENTIFIED AS MODEL OF CARVED COLUMN IN FRONT OF CHIEF'S HOUSE SKIDEGATE IN LEDGER BOOK AND SWAN'S LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD. - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999