FROM CARD: "IN FAIR ORDER. COLLINS (924)."Catalogue card and Collins Ms. p. 924 attribute this canoe model as Nootka. Catalogue card indicates this model was transferred to Ethnology 11/15/1916. From Collins Ms.: "Nootka Dugout Canoe. Used by the Nootka Indians, Vancouver Island. Model: scale 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot. An open, flat bottom, keeless dugout cane; long, sharp, overhanging bow, with pointed projection; flaring sides; long, sharp, nearly vertical stern; straight on top in center, curved strongly upward at bow; knob-like upward projection at stern; painted black; ornamented with red eel. Dimensions of canoe [all dimensions given as if this were full size]: Length 25 feet 4 inches; beam, 6 feet; depth, 2 feet 7 inches."Stern has been damaged and parts are missing.

FROM CARD: "CUT ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO BY EHKAS. 6/14/45: REPAIRED AND RESTORED BY THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LABORATORY, IN THE PROCESS ABOUT 2 FEET OF THE BACK END HAD TO BE CUT AWAY BECAUSE IT WAS TOO BADLY DECAYED TO PRESERVE, BUT THIS PART HAD ONLY A MINIMUM OF CARVING ON IT, MOSTLY JUST CONTINUATION OF THE FEATHERS."Similar to E168157 (see remarks for that object), this Taku Tlingit crow or raven figure appears to originate with the Taku Tlingit of the Upper Taku River area of British Columbia.

FROM CARD: "WHALE-BONE."Provenience note: List in accession file (this object is # 29 on list) appears to attribute this to the Chilkat Tlingit of Klukwan.

LEDGER SAYS SENT TO DR. S.C. WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 1933.From card: "Shank of halibut hook carved to represent a duck."