Catalog card says that this was sent as an exchange to F.W. Galpin in 1902, but this is apparently incorrect, since the whistle remains in the NMNH collection.

From card: "Bear, man, and raven motifs."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=625 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Mask The exact meaning of this mask - depicting a man's face with painted facial designs - has not been determined. Some Haida masks represent supernatural beings that were believed to possess chiefs and noble dancers during winter secret society performances. One of these was Walala, the Cannibal Spirit. Walala dancers bit onlookers and pretended to eat human flesh; those possessed by Bear, Wild Man, Beggar, and other spirits enacted the behaviors of those beings.

FROM CARD: "COLORS IN YELLOW, BLUISH GREEN, AND BLACK. 4/18/1967: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL., 12/13/1967: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. LOAN: CROSSROADS ON CONTINENTS, SEPT 22, 1988, LOAN RETURNED JAN 21, 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 449, P. 311." Crossroads caption identifies as "Early in the 19th century Tlingit weavers began to make dancing robes completely covered with formline patterns derived from their painted art. The figures represented were crest animals, but they were often so conventionalized that their identity is not clear. A creature like this one on a nearly identical blanket was described to George Emmons as a "sea bear," while to Franz Boas it was identified ads a "standing eagle.""EVELYN VANDERHOOP, HAIDA WEAVER, IDENTIFIES THIS CHILKAT BLANKET AS A MIX OF MOUNTAIN GOAT WOOL AND COMMERCIAL YARNS.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=351 , retrieved 3-12-2012: Chilkat robe or blanket, Tlingit.Shgen George, weaver, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This blanket likely features an eagle design.

From card: "The Quileute Indians learned the make of these baskets some 40 years ago [i.e. about 40 years prior to 1917]. Small; star pattern."

Swan's list in the accession record indicates that this object, number 45 1/2 on the list, was collected at Masset, B.C. in July 1883 but he identifies this as "made at Chilkat Alaska."