FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE BULL. 144, PL. 5-A, P. 460."

FROM CARD: "54153-5. #54154 - LENGTH - 21" WIDTH 8" HEIGHT 11"."

FROM CARD: "ELABORATELY CARVED OF BLACK CLAY SLATE; THE FIGURE, PRESUMABLY OF A SEA CAPTAIN, DRESSED IN A FORMAL FROCKCOAT, WITH A VISORED CAP. THE FACE IS CARVED OF IVORY AND FASTENED INTO THE SLATE HEAD. *THIS NUMBER IS LISTED IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOGUE BOOKS AS BEING A SLATE PIPE. HOWEVER, IT IS TO BE USED FOR THIS SPECIMEN. HEAD BROKEN OFF; CAP BROKEN: REPAIRED, 3/13/51 RAEJR. RE-REPAIRED JULY, 1974. REPRODUCED BY ALVA STUDIO, OCTOBER, 1974."Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution. Object was entered into the Anthropology catalogue ledger book January 5, 1867. Per Jane Walsh, the argillite figure of a sea captain doesn't appear on any of the U. S. Exploring Expedition official lists of objects. Also, the U. S. Exploring Expedition only collected argillite pipes, and one argillite figure, a woman that we no longer have in the collections. The only thing we really know about the two captain figures (other one - formerly E2414 - is now in The National Museum of Denmark collections) is that they came into the SI in the 40 cart loads of material from the "Government Collections" in the Patent Office in 1858. So it could be they are from the National Institute, or from the War Department, or it might be that they were collected for Spencer Baird by James G. Swan.Per Stephen Loring, this sea captain figure probably depicts a Yankee sea-captain or so-called "Boston Man."

FROM CARD: "30209-11. LOCALITY: ALASKA (NOT ALL)*. REMARKS: ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR: #30210 ON PL. XIV, FIGS. 22, P. 173. NO. 30210 EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS SUPERNATURAL MAN MASK, WESTCOAST (NOOTKA)."See Brown, Steven C., 2000, "Turning the Tables: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Southern Design Styles on the Northern Northwest Coast," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3): 48-55. In the discussion in the article on Field Museum of Natural History housefront model and totem pole model Cat. No. 264015, in footnote # 2 on p. 55, Brown speculates on the artist who made it. He notes: "The identity of the artist who created this housefront is not yet certain. Contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth artists have proposed three possibilities: Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim (both Tla'oquiaht [Clayoquot]) and Chel'tus (Ditidaht) (Black 1999:110). The writer's opinion leans toward Chel'tus, because masks more certainly attributed to Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim differ significantly in style from the former artist's apparent body of work." Brown goes on to list other artifacts he attributes to the same artist who created the Field Museum housefront model, including serpent mask # E54153 and humanoid face mask # E30210 as part of his work.

FROM CARD: "INDIAN NAME; CHUCK KOWIS."