Listed on page 43 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".

FROM CARD: "BENT BOWL, WOOD, CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LOANED, RENWICK GALLERY NOV. 7, 1973 (BOXES & BOWLS) RET'D., 8-24-76." FROM CARD: "67903. FROM: PAGE 71, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 62.BENT BOWL. WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LENGTH: 14 3/4. (TLINGIT), CHILKAT, ALASKA. "FOOD BOX." COLLECTED BY J. J. MCLEAN CATALOGED NOVEMBER 24, 1882. 67,903."

May be Sitka Tlingit?: it is identified as collected in Sitka; and also see accession history re the basket part of this accession being from the "Sitka-Kwahn."

Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Wooden mask, human face with bird beak. Cut from the solid, carved and painted. Ears pegged on (now gone). Crack at side crudely repaired with two heavy iron staples. Recurved beak (hawk or eagle?). Cloud hat formerly pegged to top of crown now missing. Paint colors: vermillion, green, black. White shell teeth inserted in slots within upper and lower lips. Bore tag saying "Helmet, thunder bird, Klingit.""Florence Sheakley and Alan Zuboff, elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The hat may feature a hawk design, which only would have been used for war helmets because the Tlingit do not have any hawk designations for clans. This object looks like it has been repaired and used to have ears. This object may have been an early iteration of a later, more light weight hat.

FROM CARD: "20258 & 20259 IDENTIFIED [in MARCH, 1979] BY PETER MACNAIR, B.C. PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, VICTORIA, AS MADE BY CHARLES EDENSHAW. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD [for E20257 through 20259], 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL: "NAPKIN RINGS.---MADE OF THIN SILVER BANDS, WITH EXTERIORS ENGRAVED WITH VARIOUS FIGURES. HAIDAH INDIANS. DIAM., 1 1/2 INS. HEIGHT, 1 7/16 INS. CASSIAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN FOR CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, 1876. MADE BY HAIDAH INDIANS UNDER DIRECTION OF MR. SULLIVAN, GOLD COMMISSIONER OF DOMINION OF CANADA. BURNISHED BY RUDOLPH, OF VICTORIA, B. C."E20258 and E20259 had been attributed to Charles Edenshaw by Peter Macnair in 1979. However, Robin Wright, 2013, attributes them as Haida, but by an unknown maker. She also identifies the figure on E20259 as a sea lion. Illus. Fig. 205, p. 180 in Wright, Robin Kathleen, Daina Augaitis, Robert Davidson, and James Hart. 2013. Charles Edenshaw. London: Black Dog Publishing. The napkin ring is attributed to an unknown maker rather than to Charles Edenshaw, which is discussed on pp. 180-181, and design is described as consisting of a sea lion and foliate scrolls. "This napkin ring was collected at the Cassiar Mine in British Columbia by James G. Swan in 1875. It was one of the many pieces he collected on that trip that featured foliate scrollwork demonstrating the popularity of that motif at the time."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS. FIG.61, P.59. CATALOGUE."

FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL. SAYERS. ILLUS. FIG.115, P.109 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PEN. PRESS, 1989. 1. EX. LEIDEN MUS. MAY /99. EX. GLEN IS. MUS., 11/95. EXCHANGE FOR MODEL COSTUMES KIOTO GIRLS' HIGHER NORMAL SCHOOL KIOTO, JAPAN APRIL 12, 1905. EXCHANGE FOR AWARD-MISS MARY H. CORBETT U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 20, 1906. EXCHANGE: MRS. J. G. SAYERS 110 MARYLAND AVENUE 4/10/1897. WASHINGTON, D.C."

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "MANUFACTURED BY ANTHRO LAB."No catalog card found in card fileLedger book says that the mortar is Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) and from Alaska (an apparent mismatch), but the original mortar, catalog number 220186, has been re-identified as possibly from Skeena River, BC. See catalog number 220186.