From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Small fine woven basket; design flying bird."

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.

Mask was originally catalogued as "Koloshian", but identification was later changed to Haida at an unknown time by an unknown person. “Carved wooden masks. These of women represent the face of an Alaska married woman. The lower lip pierced with large piece of ivory. The married women are recognized by this feature (and ring in nose.)” And, mask “is a facsimile of the face of the ordinary Alaska Indian woman (the lower lip pierced) all married woman observe this custom but a shirt silver needle or pin would better represent prevailing custom, excepting in women somewhat advanced in years.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.

HAS CATALOG CARD.

FROM CARD: "CARVED ANIMAL DISH, IN FORM OF CHIEF'S RATTLE. L.P.X. [probably L.P.X. stands for Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a.k.a. the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904]. 4/18/67: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 12/13/67:RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. VERY SIMILAR TO CAT. NO. 89,134 OR 5 ANIMAL-FORM BOWL; WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; TRACES OF RED PAINT. "CROW". 178961 LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13 1987. LOAN RETURNED NOV 25 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS. CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N88, P.151." FROM CARD: "178961 A. FROM: PAGE 50, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 26. ANIMAL-FORM BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; TRACES OF RED PAINT LENGTH: 10. (HAIDA, SKIDEGATE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. "CROW." (BY COMPARISON WITH 89134, NOT IN EXHIBITION) RECEIVED IN 1904. 178,961." No collector or donor is identified for this piece either in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book or the catalogue card. Ledger book indicates it was catalogued April 9, 1904.Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair 7-20-2005 identify this as oil dish; raven.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=658 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Bag This feast bowl imitates the shape of a Haida chief's rattle and the same supernatural beings are shown. Raven's body lends the bowl its overall form, and the cannibal spirit, Ulala, reclines on top. Ulala's arms extend around the bowl toward Hawk, who peers from Raven's tail feathers. Chiefly hosts served rich foods in carved bowls like this to their guests at winter ceremonies.

LARGE WOODEN LADLE - OPEN MOUTH BIRD? ON HANDLE. NORTHWEST COAST? WRONG #67961. Stored Tlingit.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 1O, PG. 2." Identified in Handbook caption as a hafted stone chisel.Listed on page 49 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)".