From card: "Dyed, large." Group of thin sticks.

FROM CARD: "CARVED(?) HEAD OF ANIMAL; PAINTED RED AND BLACK. HELMET TYPE." IDENTIFIED BY PETER MACNAIR, GUEST CURATOR OF THE DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY EXHIBITION, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998, AS A WOLF MASK, ARCHAIC KWAKWAKA'WAKW. BASED ON THIS IDENTIFICATION, WILLIAM STURTEVANT, CURATOR OF NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, DECIDED TO UPDATE THE CATALOG RECORD AND STORE THE OBJECT AS KWAKIUTL. ILLUS. FIG. 126, P. 151 IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS FOREHEAD MASK REPRESENTING WOLF, C. 1860, KWAKIUTL.

Originally catalogued as Tlingit, SE Alaska, but changed to Makah? by S. Wolf 6/74. From card: "Square covered basket. Note: characteristic cedar checker weave base indicates is Makah. S. Wolf 6/74."

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=523, retrieved 4-24-2012: Tobacco box. This seamless tobacco box is made from a coconut, an exotic item that could have washed ashore on the British Columbia coast after drifting across from Asia on the Japanese Current. Alternatively, it might have been brought by an American fur trade vessel that had called at Hawaii or other South Pacific port on its way north. The Tsimshian and neighboring coastal peoples cultivated a species of native tobacco before Western contact, mixing it with seashell lime for chewing.

Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder), 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. This dance image or puppet looks to be whittled noncommittally. It is unfinished, probably produced for tourists. It is made from alder wood. Puppets are very sacred and have power in them that can make you behave a certain way. This object was viewed alongside E073744-0.

List in accession file includes "7. Carved stone doll heads dressed a la Chilcaht" [i.e. Chilkat]. This entry seems to refer to E75495 - 51, all of which were originally catalogued as stone doll heads dressed. Catalogue cards were later corrected to ivory instead of stone for E75495 - 50. As of 2010, body and cloth shirt of doll E75451 are present, but there is no head.