FROM CARD: "KILLER-WHALE. HEAD SPLIT FORMING TWO PROFILES TOUCHING AT DORSAL FIN OVER HEAD. SIDE FINS ON SIDES OF BODY. PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS. 9/8/70 LOANED TO NAT. GALL. ARTS. 9/22/70 RETURNED FROM NGA."

FROM CARD: "CUT FROM THE SOLID. STYILISTICALLY CARVED, PAINTED AND INSET WITH SHELL OPERCULA. REVERSE EXCAVATED TO FIT NOSE, ALSO PERFORATED FOR BREATHING HOLE JUST BENEATH. VERTICAL ONE-FOURTH INCH DEEP GROOVES PERMITTING OVAL CURVATURE CUT INTO REVERSE SIDE. OVAL SHAPE, ENDS JOINED AT REAR WITH RAWHIDE THONG. PARTLY PLAIN, AND IN PART PAINTED IN VERMILLION. NEG. NO. 43,230F (FRONT) 43,230-G (RIGHT SIDE). NEG. NO. 43,021.16,222. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73 ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 256."

FROM CARD: "PARASOL-SHAPED. ORNAMENTED WITH A TOTEMIC DESIGN AT THE TOP, AND PAINTED IN SOLID COLOR ON THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTSIDE SURFACE." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 29. Exhibit label identified it as "Nootka type."

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983.

From card: "Cord made by Coquettle Indians." From old museum tag with artifact: Kawquettle Indians, Vancouver Island; Cord made of inner bark of Thuja gigantea [a.k.a. Thuja plicata, or the western or Pacific red cedar]; Dr. T. T. Minor US. Rev Str Wyanda [sic, should be Wayanda]."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 133; P. 486."

LEDGER BOOK CALLS THIS A WOOD CARVED BOOT, AND INDEED IT IS A BOOT-SHAPED BOX? WITH LID. HOWEVER, BOOT WAS MISTRANSCRIBED AS BOAT ON CATALOGUE CARD. - F. PICKERING 8-4-1999

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."Provenience uncertain. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies source of these boots as "Chilcot Indians." On the basis of that, it seems, culture in catalogue database has been listed as Tlingit, Chilkat? Note that an unknown person at an unknown time listed culture as Eskimo? on catalogue card.