FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 29, FIG. 138; P. 286."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Note that 18933 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 60 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.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=519 , retrieved 12-30-2011: Fish spear head This head for a fishing spear has three prongs tipped with metal points. It may have been used for spearing salmon in shallow streams or for taking trout through holes in the ice of frozen lakes.

FROM CARD: "SHIP'S BOTTOM COPPER SHEETING WITH NATIVE RIVETING. CONSISTS OF SHEET COPPER. 1-2 CM. IN THICKNESS JOINED BY COPPER RIVETS INTO FORM TYPICAL OF N.W. COAST INDIAN 'PROPERTY' SHIELDS. OUTLINE FORM ROUGHLY OBLONG WITH FLARING EDGES EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL TRANSVERSE MIDRIB TO TOP MARGIN. BOTH TOP & BOTTOM ARE CONVEXED DIAMOND-SHAPE. A SECOND REINFORCING MIDRIB EXTENDS LONGITUDINALLY FROM CENTER TO BASE. RIBS ARE 1-2 CM. DEEP V GROOVES OPENING ON REVERSE OF SHIELD. NO SUSPENSION LOOP OR ARM HOLD DESIGNS. DESIGN ETCHING ON OBVERSE. (TAKEN FROM AN EARLY LABEL:) NATIVE COPPER SHIELDS. THESE SHIELDS WERE THE MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE AND THEIR PRICE RECKONED IN SLAVES. ONE LIKE THIS WAS WORTH ABOUT FIVE SLAVES. WE HAVE QUESTIONED SEVERAL AUTHORITIES ABOUT THIS SHIELD AND THEY ALL SAY THAT IT IS UNDOUBTABLY MADE OF COPPER NUGGETS HAMMERED OUT FLAT AND RIVETED TOGETHER. ITS ORIGIN THE COPPER RIVER COUNTRY. THE OWNER WAS A PRINCE OF WALES NATIVE. THE DAY AFTER HE SOLD IT TO US HE TRIED TO PERSUADE US TO TRADE BACK."See BAE 46th Annual Report, p. 35, where acquisition of this artifact is discussed. Ales Hrdlicka purchased this object (as well as E332801, discussed on p. 34) from Robert Simpson of The Nugget Shop, a curio shop in Juneau, Alaska. Purchased by Hrdlicka in 1926, presumably in June of that year as was E332801. The publication indicates that, according to Simpson, he purchased the copper in "Klawak, Prince of Wales Island."

From card: "Collector's description and legend [which is attached to back of model]: "Heraldic or Totemic column, Bella Coola Indians NW Coast British Columbia. 1. The lower figure represents a dancing mask - NA-TOOST NA-KOX-STA Issuing from the mouth and forming the column are: 2. the LAH-KECT or squirrel. 3. next above THINK-INMIE bat. 4. next above KO-LOU beaver. 5. next above ANOOTS-KOOTS mother of raven. 6. surmounting all is the KWAH or raven. The whole is a pictograph that is a legend of the Bella Coola. James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. November [sic, should be No] 18" In addition to the above text, label on model also has date of Sept. 16? (or 26?), 1884.

FROM CARD: "TO HOLD SWAN'S DOWN FOR CHIEF'S HEAD DRESS."

These appear to be the objects on list in accession file identified as "Abbaloni earrings & ornaments, one inlaid in native copper."

FROM CARD: "13096-101. 13096 MINIATURE DOOR POST." Accession record calls this a large carving (bear and eagle), Haida.

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.