FROM CARD: "FISH HOOK & BLADDER BUOY WITH FISH LINE."

FROM CARD: "PIECE OF UNBLEACHED SHEETING CONTAINING BOLD FIGURES OF ANIMAL HEADS, EYES, HANDS, IN RED, BLACK, GREEN, YELLOW AND BLUE." OBJECT IS ILLUSTRATED IN BAE BULLETIN 124, "NOOTKA AND QUILEUTE MUSIC" BY FRANCES DENSMORE, PLATE 13B, AFTER P. 24. SEE P. 24 OF PUBLICATION WHERE ROBE IS IDENTIFIED AS MADE FOR FRANCES DENSMORE BY CHARLES SWAN (OF NEAH BAY) AND DESIGN IS EXPLAINED. - F. PICKERING 7-7-2000

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917]. Design four birds in red."

From card: "Made from the inner bark (bast) of the cedar tree."

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=703 , retrieved 5-17-2012: Halibut hook, Haida. Halibut surpassed every other food in the traditional diet. Individual matrilineages claimed ownership of undersea "banks" (plateaus) where the fish congregate. Early spring halibut fishing brought some of the first fresh food of the year, and people worked to lay in a large supply, the men pulling the fish from the bottom on wooden hooks and the women slicing them into fillets and drying them for storage. On summer trading voyages, the Haida exchanged dried halibut and seaweed to the Tsimshian for eulachon grease and berries. On this halibut hook, a predatory creature is shown capturing a seal.

From card: "Two tusks of the Peccary or Mexican wild hog. Found in the grave of an old Indian doctor at KAH TE LAY JUK TO WOS point, NW end of Graham Id., Queen Charlotte group, between KIOOSTA [Kiusta] and YAKH [Yaku] villages opposite North Island. Collected Aug. 10th, 1883 by James G. Swan. See accession records for additional data."

From card: "Black slate covered with tolunie [sic, "tolunie" probably a mistranscription of "totemic"] carvings on upper surface and rim, the latter also set with pairs of opercula. Design represents a ------."

FROM CARD: "50 CTS. ."

FROM CARD: "...WOODEN HELMET CARVED IN SHAPE OF WOLF'S HEAD, HAIDA ILLUS. IN USNM AR [for year 1888], PL. XIII, FIG. 41, P. 270." Note: this object is catalogued as from Neah Bay, Washington Territory, so it is unclear why this publication caption identifies it as Haida, though some of the other material in this collection is from Alaska. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESS.---CUT FROM BLOCK OF CEDAR WOOD TO REPRESENT THE HEAD OF WOLF; MOUTH OPEN, DISPLAYING TEETH; TEETH PAINTED WHITE, LIPS RED, EYES BLACK AND WHITE. EARS ARE SEPARATE PIECES. UNDER SIDE CARVED OUT TO FIT HEAD OF WEARER. WORN IN NATIVE DANCES BY MAKAH INDIANS, NEAH BAY. LENGTH, 12 INS. HEIGHT TO TIP OF EAR, 7 1/2 INS. WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,441. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."