LOAN: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964. Loan returned 2012.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 30, FIG. 141, P. 286." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "TRAWL-LINE.-FOR OCEAN FISHING. THE GROUND LINE IS MADE OF CEDAR ROOTS, THE SNOODS OR GANGINGS OF WHALEBONE AND CEDAR, AND THE HOOKS OF STEAMED AND BENT CEDAR WOOD,WITH BARBS OF IRON. KWAKIUTL INDIANS (WAKASHAN STOCK), VANCOUVER ISLAND, B. C. COLLECTED BY DR. T. T. MINOR."Note: E6560 and E306355 were mixed together in NHB storage. It is unclear if all parts have been sorted out and given their correct numbers. Note also that E6560 is supposed to be a trawl line with small bentwood hooks, but there is also a large halibut hook with that number, which may be incorrect?

From card: "#88828 Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 28, fig. 128, p. 286." Artifact has old label: "No. 107 sea otter club for killing otter, Haida, Massett, July 1883, J. G. Swan, 35 cents?"

HAS CATALOG CARD.Per Aaron Glass, this neck ring may be one shown in SI photo Negative #77-10036, Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No.# Boas 09070500, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, which shows a museum exhibit of a figure group (mannequin life group) of Kwakiutl Hamatsa initiates emerging from a room behind a painted scene. This neck ring may be the one on the figure second from left in the photo. The exhibit was created for the museum by Franz Boas in 1895, using items from the collection. This photo, and a description of how Boas researched and created the exhibit, are in Jonaitis, Aldona. 1988. "From the Land of the Totem Poles: the Northwest Coast Indian Art Collection at the American Museum of Natural History", p. 150. The photo can also be seen online by going to collections.si.edu/search and searching on "NAA INV 09070500".

FLATTENED HUMAN HEAD AND NECK. NECK HAS HOLE.

FROM CARD: "PEALE CATALOG IDENTIFYS THIS AS A TOOL FOR POUNDING FROM THE NATIVES OF OREGON. PROBABLY OBTAINED BY WILKES IN NORTHERN PUGET SOUND. THE ART STYLE IS VERY TYPICAL OF SALISH WORK PARTICULARLY COWICHAN. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 263."This appears to be a fish club. Carved wooden club, one end carved with bird head.

Echini are presumably sea urchins. E88759 - 61 are on the list of objects purchased by Swan in Masset, a Haida town, in July 1883. The catalogue card lists them as Haida. However, the catalogue card also lists them as "Chilcat Inds." The source of this Chilkat attribution is unknown, though it may perhaps be a misreading of the original Anthropology catalogue ledger book, which identifies E88752, whose entry is on the same page and above the entries for these nets, as of Chilkat origin.

From card: "Twined and plaited. Decoration showing birds, and hunters in canoes. Originally collected by Miss Ella F. Hubby."