From card: "#88929 - Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 29, fig. 153, p. 286." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Seal Spear Head. - Made of steel. Head detachable from foreshaft and secured by a plaited lanyard of seaweed made fast to a shackle in the butt. The case is made of two pieces of cedar lashed with split spruce root. Masset Indians (Skittagetan stock), Queen Charlotte's Islands, B.C. Collected by James G. Swan."Harpoon head sheath is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Only sheath on loan. Harpoon head, which was not located during the 1970's inventory, is not included on loan.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on harpoon head sheath http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=624, retrieved 5-6-2012: Sheath for harpoon head, Haida. A wooden sheath with a seal-like "tail": encased the barbed tip of a seal harpoon when it was not in use. Legendary seal hunters from Gitadju' became lost in fog and arrived at the undersea house of the Ocean People. There a supernatural being dressed in rings of woven cedar bark taught them spirit dances to perform during potlatch ceremonies. On the way back home the men capsized their canoe but managed to reach shore, and when one blew on his wet harpoon sheath it made a whistling sound like the voice of the dancing spirit. Haida celebrants used wooden whistles to re-create this sound and dressed in bark rings as their ancestors had been shown.

From card: "Bear-killer whale, beaver, frog, and dog fish motifs."

CARVED OF COWHORN (ACCORDING TO R. LINTON, 1953). RELIEF CARVING ON HANDLE: 3INSETS OF ABALONE SHELL, 4TH SETTING EMPTY. CARVED HUMAN FACE. HOLE IN TIP OF BOWL.

Triangular; incised and carved relief decoration. Hole through one corner with remains of buckskin cord through it.

From card: "Small bundle of spruce roots stained blue (mud stain?)"

From card: "Two concave sheets of copper, circular soldered at their edges, having projecting handle carved on both surfaces. An early historical reference to 'copper' rattles is recorded in 'Voyages of the Columbia', F. W. Howay, 1787-93, (Boit's log) pg. 386. The area is Clayquot Sound, W. Vancouver Id., B. Col."See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several Emmons accessions. It appears to contain information about copper rattle # E221180. It may be the rattle referred to on a list in that file as "Copper rattle, [presumably purchased in] Victoria, British Columbia (bird carved.)"Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The use of copper in an object like this is unusual for Tlingits. This object has the same design on both sides, and may be a bear, but the presence of wings suggests a bird, particularly an owl. A bird or owl design would suggest Yakutat origins.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 26, FIG. 110; P. 286."