FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED."1 arrow.

FROM CARD: "HEAD, BUST AND ARMS OF WOMAN CARVED IN RELIEF ON SQUARE BACKGROUND, THE MARGINS INLAID WITH ABALONE. IT IS THE FRONT OF A HEADDRESS OF ERMINE. L.P. EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904. OBJECT IS ILLUS. FIG. 6, P. 65, IN EMMONS, GEORGE T. "PORTRAITURE AMONG THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST TRIBES," AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 16(1), 1914. OBJECT IDENTIFIED THERE AS "BUST OF A YOUNG GIRL NATURALLY POSED AND DRESSED IN THE STYLE OF A GENERATION AGO; IT IS SAID TO REPRESENT THE FAVORITE DAUGHTER OF A HAIDA CHIEF WHOSE UNTIMELY DEATH SO SADDENED THE FATHER THAT HE HAD HER IMAGE CARVED IN THIS MANNER IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT WEAR IT ON CEREMONIAL OCCASIONS ON THE FRONT OF HIS HEAD-DRESS." SEE FIG. 11, P. 180 OF BILL HOLM, "WILL THE REAL CHARLES EDENSAW PLEASE STAND UP?", IN "THE WORLD IS AS SHARP AS A KNIFE"; BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, VICTORIA, 1981, WHERE FRONTLET IS ATTRIBUTED TO CARVER CHARLES GWAYTIHL. [NOTE: RESEARCH BY ROBIN WRIGHT IDENTIFIES NAME AS JOHN GWAYTIHL, NOT CHARLES, BUT WRIGHT ATTRIBUTES PIECE TO SIMEON STILTHDA, NOT GWAYTIHL, SEE BELOW]. SEE PL. 30, P. 41 IN GEORGE F. MACDONALD, HAIDA MONUMENTAL ART; UNIV. OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS, VANCOUVER, 1983. PLATE IS 1890'S PHOTO TAKEN AT SKIDEGATE SHOWING FRONTLET BEING WORN BY WOMAN IN BACK ROW. Object is illus.: Fig. 6, p. 40 in Wright, Robin K. "The Depiction of Women in Nineteenth Century Haida Argillite Carving," American Indian Art Magazine 11(4), Autumn 1986. Object is described on p.44- 45 of this article and again identified as Haida. 4/18/1967 Loaned to Vancouver Art. Gallery; 12/13/1967 Returned. Loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago 6/22/77; Returned 12/1/77."Originally cataloged as Tlingit, but later changed to Haida. Catalog card notes: "...corrected based on G.T. Emmons, American Anthropologist 16 (1): 65 (fig. 6), W. Sturtevant 12/2/1988"7-21-2005 per Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair, this artifact has been attributed to maker Simeon Stilthda (d. 1883), rather than Gwaytihl. See Collections Lab accession file for additional information. See Fig. 5.60, p. 295 of Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, where Wright attributes this headdress frontlet to Simeon Stilthda/Simeon sdiihldaa. See also pp. 45-46, and Fig. 11 p. 48 in Wright, Robin K. "Two Haida Artists from Yani: Will John Gwaytihl and Simeon Stilthda Please Step Apart," American Indian Art Magazine 23(3), Summer 1998.See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several different Emmons accessions. It appears to contain information about headdress frontlet # E221176. It may be the object referred to on a list at the end of that file as "Head dress mask from Skidigit [presumably Skidegate?], womans face + bust carved."

Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies baskets E222033-0 and E222034-0 as berry baskets collected (probably purchased?) in Victoria, B.C.. Catalogue card for E222033-0 attributes to Southeast Alaska. In a letter of July 16, 1903 from Sitka, Alaska filed in accession file 41512, Emmons mentions two baskets that may be E222033-0 and E222034-0. He mentions that he is sending two very old Chilkat berry baskets to the Smithsonian.

FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED. 1 ARROW MAY BE FROM CALIFORNIA. COMPARE WITH ARROW #2755."1 bow and 7 arrows.

FROM CARD: 54295 HAS 2 CATALOGUE CARDS, CARD MARKED 54295A-B HAS THESE REMARKS: "AFTER AN EXTENSIVE SURVEY OF THE TOTEM POLES IN THE USNM COLLECTIONS, AN OBVIOUS DISCREPANCY WAS NOTED IN THAT SPECIMEN #54297 WAS CATALOGED AS ONE POLE THIS SPECIMEN WAS ACTUALLY ONLY HALF OF THE ORIGINAL POLE THE SUBSEQUENT HALF BEING ALSO CONSIDERED AS A COMPLETE TOTEM POLE. IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE ORIGINAL POLE (2 SECTIONS) IS THE SPECIMEN MARKED "A-B" AND NUMBERED 54295 IN THE CATALOG BOOK. THE SPECIMEN WAS APPARENTLY COLLECTED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA EXPOSITION OF 1876 AND IT CAN BE NOTED (ASSEMBLED) IN PHOTOS OF THE EXHIBIT. IN NOTES DERIVED FROM 'SWAN' LETTERS (1875-6) THERE IS REFERENCE TO A "CARVED COLUMN" FROM ALERT BAY (VANCOUVER ID.), HENCE A KWAKIUTL SPECIMEN. BASED ON THE USNM NW COLLECTIONS AND CURRENT NW COAST LITERATURE; THE TREATMENT OF THE SPECIMEN COULD BE CONSIDERED AS KWAKIUTL. 6/6/68 GP. EARLIER OPINIONS HAVE BEEN NOTED AS FOLLOWS: 1882 ACCESSIONED HAIDA. 1962 M. BARBEAU KWAKIUTL. 1962 W. HOLM BELLA BELLA OR TLINGIT." AS OF 1999 THIS POLE IS STORED IN TWO PIECES OR SECTIONS."I believe this item was collected in 1875 from Yalis (Alert Bay) by James Swan. Swan was reported to have collected 3 poles for the 1876 Worlds Fair in Philadelphia. One was from Alaska, one was from Port Simpson and one was from Alert Bay." -- Ken Lund (via Reciprocal Research Network)

NO NUMBER; NORTHWEST COAST-WOMAN'S BROWN JACKET: COTTON AND SILK, VELVET BORDER.

FROM CARD: "FOR MAKING MATS."

FROM CARD: "PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS. BOX? OF A CHIEFTAINESS. (TSIMSIAN)."