FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BONE OR IVORY CARVING (SHAMAN'S CHARM).---THE MIDDLE PORTION SOMEWHAT RESEMBLES THE BODY OF A MARINE WORM (NEREIS), IN HAVING LATERAL APPENDAGES. THE ENDS REPRESENT GROTESQUE HEADS, THE LONGER ONE BEING SPLIT AFTER THE FASHION OF A CLOWN'S BATON. SITKA, ALASKA, 1880. COLLECTED BY COM. L. A. BEARDSLEE, U. S. N. ."

INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "LPX ORDER 670 $91.33"From card: "Basket hat. Completely painted with faded red background. Black and white design." "Makah" is written inside hat, near catalogue number.Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk) and Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This hat labeled as Bella Bella was most likely given as a gift, acquired through marriage, or stolen. Heiltsuk hats are never shaped in this way. It is very Makah and West coast design choices.

FROM CARD: "CEDAR BARK. 1 GIFT ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INST., FEB. 14, 1903."Listed on page 45 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)".

FROM CARD: "SEINE NEEDLES, AND SCRATCHERS ETC."Anthropology catalogue ledger book calls this Army Medical Museum # 439, but that number may not be correct. It may instead be 443 (or even 444)?

From card: "Beaver, raven and dog fish motifs." Illus. Pl. 302, p. 382 and described p. 389-392 and 410 in Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as (from top) shark, raven, beaver. Collected at Skidegate.

Both Swan's original tag with the artifact and the Anthropology catalogue ledger book identify this artifact as a "dancing skirt." This was mistranscribed on the catalogue card as a "dancing shirt." - F. Pickering 9-27-2006

From card: "One 10" boat paddle and one sail boat thwart 5 3/4" long (parts of northern type canoe) were transferred back to the Division of Ethnology from the Division of Engineering, January 25, 1934. 5/9/66 Summarized from fragments of a 'Swan' data card: This model and others are made to exact proportions of full length Haida canoes. They are exact representations of modern (1883) Haida canoes. GEP"