FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BULL. 136, USNM, PL. 8-I, P.121."Swan collected two rattles, both Swan original #37. The ledger book indicates the original intention to give each rattle a separate catalogue number: 20786 and 20787. However, when the pieces were numbered during cataloguing, they were instead both given #20786, and were published as a pair under this number in USNM Bulletin 136. As of 2004, they are both still numbered 20786, and the decision has been made to keep them both as that number for now. - F. Pickering

Incised decoration on both sides. Hole for suspension has been drilled through at top.

FROM CARD: "A BOX ENCLOSING PEBBLES OF CARVED WOOD, HAVING THE FORM OF A LONG CLAM, PARTLY OPEN WITH THE FLESH DRAWN BACK TOWARDS THE HINGE NEARLY HALF THE LENGTH OF THE SHELL. THE BOX IS FORMED IN THE FLESH PART."Listed on page 42 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: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR ? P1. VI, FIG. 13, P. 260. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "EAR-RINGS (2).---MADE OF SILVER; PENDANT TO HOOKS FOR LOBES OF EAR ARE FLAT HOOK-SHAPED PLAIN ORNAMENTS. SITKA INDIANS. LENGTH, 1 1/8 INS. BREADTH, 13/16 INCH. ALASKA, 1875. 19,551. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. NEG. NO. 9994."

FROM OLD 19TH CENTURY OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---SKULL CAP MADE OF FIVE TRIANGULAR PIECES OF BLUE AND RED CLOTH, ON THE EXTERIOR PART OF WHICH ARE SEWED NUMEROUS LONG LOCKS OF DARK-BROWN HUMAN HAIR. FITTED WITH STRINGS ON SIDE AND WORN AS DANCING WIG. SITKA-KWAHN INDIANS. CIRCUMFERENCE, 24 INS. LENGTH, 24 INS. SITKA, ALASKA, 1876. 20,781. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

The object name for catalog numbers e20736-20742 was previously recorded as: "Carving Wooden Dish Frog". This is due to the fact that the objects within this range share a single catalog card, where the description (carving wooden dish frog) only corresponds to the first object (e20734) in the series. When the catalog information was entered into the database, the object name was recorded as the same for each, despite the fact that each catalog number is representative of different, separate objects. At some point, a new catalog card was created for E20742. The other records were updated when digital images were attached to the catalog records.