From card: "Used in dance. 2 Illus. in USNM Rept. 1895; fig. 157; p. 508." Publication identifies them as "Figures representing a pair of No'nlemgila".Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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 looks to be red cedar based on the wood grain and is likely a puppet. The attached hair is likely human.

FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP OF PINE, THE JOINT SCARFED AND NAILED. ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE OR THIN SKIN. WHEN GREEN IT IS STRETCHED ACROSS AND OVER THE HOOP AND FASTENED TO BACK EDGE WITH WOODEN PIN, EXCEPT IN THREE PLACES WHERE THE SKIN WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH IT IS PEGGED ON OUTSIDE OF HOOP. TWO PAIRS OF HOLES OF THE PAIRS ABOUT 9 INCHES APART ARE MADE THROUGH HOOP AND SKIN 1-1/4 INCHES FROM BACK EDGE AND TWO RAWHIDE THONGS ARE STRETCHED ACROSS BACK OF HOOP SO AS TO CROSS AT THE MIDDLE. A ROPE OF HEMP IS WOUND LENGTHWISE OF THE CROSSING TO FORM A HANDLE."Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This drum is a Tlingit design and is made with bentwood and deer hide.

From card: Collector U.S. Fish Commission, USS Steamer Albatross. Collected 1892. "Scale model, 1" to the foot. Lt. [G.] T. Emmons USN says this was used for the catching of sea otter, much used for their furs. A keelless open dugout canoe with a flat ridge on the bottom of the keel, one end rises slightly and there is strong sheer at the bow. Returned to the Division of Ethnology 1960. [Returned from the Division of Engineering. Old Engineering # 76276.] One third of the top of the stern end was broken away when examined in Nov. 1963 - R. Elder. Collins Ms. p. 1223."Note, citation on card to the entry on this canoe model in the Collins Ms. is incorrect. This canoe model is described on p. 902 of the Collins Ms., not p. 1223. The text in the remarks on the card is mostly from the Collins Ms., and in that Ms. it notes that G. T. (i.e. George Thornton) Emmons is the one saying this canoe model is the type of the Yakutat Tlingit, of Cook's Inlet (a.k.a. Cook Inlet), Alaska. It is unclear from the entry if Emmons was indicating that this was actually collected at Cook Inlet, or merely that it is a canoe model typical of the Yakutat Tlingit of that area. Accession file identifies the canoe model only as from Southwest Alaska.