5 parts: the head mask, and 4 "fins". From card: "Shark (dog fish) head mask of wood; dorsal fin and tail. Dorsal fin attached by a belt aroung the body of the performer. / See also #150, Cat. No. 89,143. / Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit as Crest Mask- The Dogfish, Haida, collected at the village of Skidegate in 1883."

FROM CARD: "FOR GRINDING NATIVE TOBACCO FOR CHEWING. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. 63, FIG. 337, PG. 344. LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 4/18/67. RET. 12/13/67. LOANED TO THE ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA 12/3/75. RETURNED: 3-25-76."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this object as Chilcat. USNM AR for 1888 identifies as Sitka. Sitka has been typed on the catalogue card (card was typed 1965 or later.)

From card: "Base - A, body - B, cap - C."Descriptive information on the card appears to apply to pole model E23547, not 74745.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) 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. All of these things depicted on the totem pole are how we came into being as we are today. It's the way things were at the time in our ancestors' world before they became mortal beings like we are today. There are some elements that are similar to Captain Carpenter. Maybe this was carved by his teacher or maybe he did this when he was extremely young.

Though catalogued as #3 in the collection, this object is either #2 or #3 on the detailed list filed in the accession record, both of which are identified as tobacco or snuff mortars from Skeena River, B.C..A cast of this mortar was cataloged as E229786 [there is also a mold]