LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/8 SENT TO SALEM, MA. 1886.

Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify this spoon as Bella Bella. As of 2010, culture in database identifies the spoon as Tlingit, however the source of the Tlingit identification is unknown. The spoon is therefore being listed as both Tlingit and Bella Bella for now.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) 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. In order to make the spoons, they look for parts in the alder tree that have a natural curve. Everyone sat around the big cooking pot and used them for spooning their soup out. Alder wood spoons are for everyday use and horn spoons are used for feasts. Usually when you take on your chiefdomship, or you have a feast, this is one of the items that would sit on top of the bentwood box or it would be publicly handed over.

FROM CARD: "PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. ON ADMIRALTY INLET, PUGET SOUND."

FROM CARD: "20568A & B ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 4 (A ON LEFT, B ON RIGHT), PG. 316. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76." Identified in Handbook caption as water bucket, "... a bent-corner box (the 4 sides made of a single board, kerfed, steamed, and folded into a box shape, the ends joined and a bottom attached with wooden pegs) with a wooden handle acrosss the top." Painted designs in red and black, and borders and handle red. Forms a set with dipper E20568B.FROM CARD: 20568A (BOX), 20568B (DIPPER). FROM PAGE 77, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECTS ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 68. BOX AND DIPPER WOOD; PAINTED BLACK AND RED. HEIGHT (BOX): 10 1/4. LENGTH (DIPPER): 11. BELLA BELLA, BRITISH COLUMBIA. "WATER BUCKET AND LADLE." COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 15, 1876. 20,568-A (BOX); 20,568-B (DIPPER)."Catalog card gives 5260 as accession number, but 4686 (also from Swan, in 1876) is more likely, as that accession contains objects from British Columbia.Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) 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 is a water cooking box. Food was prepared in these using hot rocks. Everyone had these boxes; families often have regular boxes for eating and cooking at home and boxes for feasts and potlatches.

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD; TEN TEETH 2 1/2 INCHES LONG; SURMOUNTED BY FIGURE OF A MAN." [back of card]: "LENT TO THE BURKE MUSEUM, 2/23/89. LOAN RETURNED OCT 10, 1989."*SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 108, WHERE THIS OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A COMB, COAST SALISH; CARVED END DEPICTS A HUMAN FIGURE WEARING A EURO-AMERICAN STYLE HAT.Has original Peale # label Peale # 253. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."Comb carved from single piece of wood. Upper portion is a human figure wearing a hat. Head is somewhat naturally rendered, whereas body is simplified. ten teeth form lower portion of comb.

From old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label stored with artifact: "Strike-a-light - Pouch, made of the skins from the heads of, probably, the dog, rudely sewed together. It contains tinder of moss and a lump of pyrites. Width 6 1/2 inches. Sitka, Alaska."