From card: "Very old." Ledger book identifies this as a horn dish. Catalogue card originally also identified it as horn, but this was later crossed out and changed to identify the piece as wood. However, it is indeed made of horn and so the object name has been corrected in this database.

FROM CARD: "INDIAN NAME; CHE-ETRIK."

FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MOCCASINS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST INDIANS. MADE OF REINDEER SKIN; SEAM DOWN THE FRONT; SOLES OF SAME MATERIAL; ANKLE PIECES OF SKIN OR CLOTH; TONGUE PIECE OF CLOTH, WITH OR WITHOUT EMBROIDERY. THE PLAN OF THESE SHOES RESEMBLES THOSE OF TRIBES EAST OF THE ROCKIES, BUT THE TOE IS FINISHED OFF WITH A CROSS-SEAM. SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. 20,816; 20,796; 165,148. COLLECTED BY ... J. G. SWAN"Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These moccasins were made by the same person who made E020817-0. This object is probably made out of thin moosehide, not reindeer. The Tlingit would have only used reindeer if it was acquired through trade, since they would use any material they had. Moosehide has varying thicknesses, and can be spliced or sliced to make thinner layers. These moccasins also feature either cloth, flannel, or thick canvas.The decorations on this design are made with hand sewn thread, not beads.

FROM CARD: "INNER BARK OF WHITE CEDAR. WORN IN WET WEATHER. DANISH NATL MU 1868."Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution (and catalog card) say this was transferred to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1867, but apparently either this is incorrect or it was later returned to the Museum.

FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING PIECE OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SIMILAR TO 20,698 AND FITTED WITH A LARGE OVAL SEED MADE OF PINE. THE MOUTH PIECE IS REDUCED IN SIZE TO BETTER FIT THE LIPS. SHALLOW GROOVES ARE MADE IN THE OUTSIDE TO KEEP THE LASHINGS ONE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE JOINTS ARE MADE TIGHT WITH PITCH OR GUN"Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. It's a single reed with hide and spruce root binding. On the end it's sap. It has a red cedar chamber, spruce root, tan hide binding and burlap sack helping it hold the reed in place. The reed itself looks like red or yellow cedar. It might be pine, but not the chamber.

FROM CARD: "SPOON.---BOWL OF SHEEP HORN, HANDLE OF GOAT HORN ORNAMENTED WITH CARVED TOTEMIC DESIGNS. THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOULD.THE HANDLE IS FASTENED TO THE BOWL WITH COPPER RIVETS. LENGTH, 8 3/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 1/2 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,749. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "20576-8. ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XIII, FIG. 21, P. 171." Description of mask in the publication cited above is on p. 116: "A well-carved modern mask, collected by J.G. Swan for the National Museum at Bellabella, British Columbia, near Milbank Sound; history wanting. It is carved of Alaska cedar, rather thick and heavy. The ears, nostrils, lips, upper forehead, bands around the face and across the cheeks are colored red; the eyebrows and irides are black. The remainder of the portions dark-shaded in the figure are blue, powdered while wet with triturated mica, which adhered when the paint had hardened. The surface of the wood is bare in some of the lighter-shaded portions. The eyes are not perforated, the wearer peeping through the nostril holes. This mask was held on by cords passing through its ears and around the nasal septum. The interior is soiled with red paint, which appears to have been rubbed off the painted face of the wearer. This is also evidently a festival mask, not used in connection with, or, at least, not symbolic of, ... totemic ritual."Illus. Fig. 25, p. 36 in King, J. C. H. 1979. Portrait masks from the Northwest Coast of America. [New York]: Thames and Hudson. Identified there as: "Northern Kwakiutl human face mask. A heavily carved mask painted black, red and blue, of unknown significance. The eyes are not pierced so that the wearer would have looked through the nostrils. It was collected in the 1870s by J.G. Swan at Bella Bella, British Columbia, c. 1850-1875.Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) and Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) 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 mask has eye orbs the same as the classic Nuxalk style.