FROM CARD: "NAME: *COIL WHALING ROPE. REMARKS: MADE OF SPRUCE ROOTS. *12/13/66 HARPOON HEAD SHEATH LOCATED WITH THIS NUMBER. GP."SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO E. LOVETT, GREAT BRITAIN. 1889.

FROM CARD: "23355-6. VERY LARGE. 23356 EX. G. T. EMMONS APRIL 28/04. PRINCETON,N. J."

FROM CARD: "USED BY THE INDIANS IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA FOR TRAVELING, ETC. DUGOUT OF THE TRUNK OF A SINGLE TREE OF THE GIANT CEDAR (THUJA GIGANTEA). AN OPEN, ROUND BOTTOM KEELESS CANOE; LONG SHARP, OVERHANGING BOW WITH SNOUT-LIKE PROJECTION AND STRAIGHT NEARLY VERTICAL OUTWATER; FLARING SIDES; SHARP, OVERHANGING STERN; ENDS CURVED UP RATHER SHARPLY WITH A CARVED FIGURE OF A BEAR RESTING ON THE BOW AND STERN; PAINTED ALL OVER WITH TOTEMS; EQUIPPED WITH 5 PADDLES. THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND FINEST CANOES BUILT BY THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA. THE PERFECTION OF ITS LINES, ITS BUOYANCY, AND ITS ORNAMENTATION CHALLENGE ADMIRATION.- H. COLLINS' SMITHSONIAN BOAT COLLECTION MS. P. 893. G. T. EMMONS "TLINGIT ETHNOLOGY" (MSS IN AMER. MUSEUM NAT. HISTORY) MENTIONS THIS CANOE; "ONE OF THE LAST OF THE CANOES, THE PROPERTY OF THE NAN-YA-A-YI [Naanya.aayí] CHIEF, SHAKES [Sheiyksh], OF THE STIKINE TRIBE WAS NAMED HOOTZ YORK (BROWN BEAR CANOE) FROM THE CARVED BEAR FIGURES SURMOUNTING BOW AND STERN. THE MALE BEAR LEANING OVER THE BOW WAS THE WATCHMAN LOOKING AHEAD, AND THE FEMALE WAS SHOWN RISING OUT OF THE STERN. IT WAS ALSO CALLED "KETE YOURK" (KILLER WHALE CANOE) AS A KILLER WHALE WAS PAINTED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BOW. ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STERN WAS PAINTED A RAVEN. THE KILLER WHALE AND BROWN BEAR WERE BOTH FAMILY CRESTS, THE RAVEN THE WIFE'S CREST. THIS CANOE PROCURED FOR GOVT. EXHIBIT AT CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR IN 1893 ... ". SEE U.S.N.M. BULL. NO. 127, PG. 218-19 [canoe is listed as number 76315]. [Bow and stern] ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 4, LEFT AND CENTER, PG. 9. THREE DRAWINGS OF SPECIMEN [by Bill Holm are] IN NAA [NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES] ..." ...CONTINUED, SEE CARDS. Note re photos: Smithsonian Photographic Services color slide # 73-5071 is view of National Anthropological Archives drawing of complete canoe showing midships artwork; color slide # 73-5072 is view of NAA drawing of bow of canoe; color slide # 73-5073 is view of NAA drawing of stern of canoe.A 1943 memo in accession file discusses the transfer of this canoe, listed as Division of Engineering number 76315, from the Engineering Division to the Department of Anthropology, and indicates that it formerly had been suspended from the ceiling of the Boat Hall of the Arts and Industries building, but in 1942 was moved to the West Court of the Natural History Museum as an air raid precaution. This canoe has been called various numbers while at the Smithsonian, including Division of Engineering number 76315 and Catalogue Nos. 168115 and 398282 while in the Department of Anthropology. E168115 is the number used currently for it by the Department of Anthropology.

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

From card: "Skidgate [Skidegate] collection. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; pl. 48, fig. 272, p. 322. Loan to R. H. Lowie Museum 12/31/64. Loan returned Feb 15, 1966." Illus. Pl. 59, p. 48, and described p. 47 in Barbeau, Marius. 1957. Haida carvers in argillite/ Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, National Museum of Canada. Barbeau attributes to carver Tom Price. Motifs: 2 bears on outside and 2 bears and 2 eagles on inside of dish or plate.

From card: "Represents a fish; carved and painted."

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE." (DUPLICATE. COPIED FROM CATALOG).Argillite clay-type pipe with long stem; two figures with bone heads sit on either side of bowl, with their outstretched arms and legs around the bowl.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?

From card: "Carved horns mounted on buckskin band."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 this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=704 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Headdress On this shaman's crown, mountain goat horns carved in the shape of bear claws are fastened to a leather head band. The eyes of the spirit faces at the base of each horn are inset with abalone shell. On solitary spirit quests in the mountains, a shaman might dream of the power to cure sickness, and acquire that ability; or he might be visited by Property Woman who controlled wealth, and become rich through his practice.