FROM CARD: "SPOON.---MADE OF GOAT HORN. THE HANDLE IS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE HORN IN ITS NATURAL SHAPE, ORNAMENTED WITH TOTEMIC DESIGNS CARVED IN RELIEF. THE BOWL IS MADE FROM THE LOWER PORTION OF THE HORN AND IS SHAPED BY STEAMING IT IN A WOODEN MOULD. THE HANDLE AND BOWL ARE RIVETED TOGETHER. LENGTH, 10 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 1/2 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,748. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

From card: "Not included in Swan inventory"

FROM CARD: "? #13120 - SAND SAW ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL.60; PL. 17, NO. 5; P. 48."Listed on page 115 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "History of the Saw".

FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING BLOCK OF WOOD DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES ALONG ITS MAJOR AXIS. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SO THAT WHEN LASHED TOGETHER THERE IS A CONTINUOUS AIR CHAMBER FROM UPPER END TO WITHIN A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF LOWER END. THE HALVES ARE LASHED TOGETHER AT UPPER END AND AGAIN HALF WAY OF THE TOTAL LENGTH, WHEN THE SMALL OR MOUTH END IS BLOWN INTO STRONGLY THE PRESSURE CAUSES THE LOWER END TO OPEN AND VIBRATE, ALLOWING THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, CAUSING A HARSH SOUND. THE REV. F. W. GALPIN OF ENGLAND CALLS THIS KIND OF REED THE "RETREATING REED". PROF. MASON HAS GIVEN IT THE NAME "INVERTED DOUBLE REED" WHICH I PREFER. (E.H.H.)"

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MAT.---WOVEN OF COLORED COTTON AND WOOLEN RAGS; ROUND CORNER. LENGTH 5 FEET. WIDTH 3 FEET 4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS, WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,425. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO E.B. WEBSTER, 1886.

FROM CARD: "WOODEN BIRD'S HEAD WITH PAINTED BUCKSKIN CUT IN FORM OF BODY, TAIL, AND WINGS ATTACHED TO BACK OF MASK. LOANED: 4/30/1965. THE TEXTILE MUSEUM. RETURNED: . LOANED: 4/18/1967 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY. RETURNED: 12/13/1967. LOAN DATA: VERY FRAGILE, COPPER LOOSE. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 9 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---CAP OF WOOD, CARVED HEMISPHERICALLY TO FIT HEAD, AND SURMOUNTED BY CARVED AND PAINTED EYES AND BEAK OF BIRD PROJECTING FORWARD. EYES AND MOUTH OF COPPER; TEETH OF ROWS OF SMALL WHITE SHELLS. ATTACHED TO HEAD AND PENDANT BEHIND ARE PAINTED WINGS, BODY, AND TAIL OF BIRD CUTFROM SKIN OR PARCHMENT. INDIANS NEAR BELLA BELLA. WORN IN NATIVE DANCES. LENGTH, TOTAL, 33 INS. LENGTH OF WOOD, 16 1/2 INS. HEIGHT, 5 3/4 INS. WIDTH, 7 1/2 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,571. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT HOOYEH (THE CROW), WHICH IS CONNECTED WITH THEIR TRADITIONS AND HELD BY THEM IN HIGH REGARD." ILLUS. FIG. 90, P. 115, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY, BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS HEADDRESS MASK REPRESENTING EAGLE, CIRCA 1860.'EAGLE MASK WITH PAINTED TRAILER PROBABLY MADE BY HEILTSUK ARTIST KNOWN BY HIS ENGLISH NAME AS CAPTAIN CARPENTER. - BILL MCLENNAN, MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 12 APR 1996.Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) 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. The teeth are small shells from the sea snail harvested at the beach. It is made from some sort of animal hide and representations of eagles are found through out. This piece is typical of artist, Captain Carpenter. The eye socket and eyebrow appear to be a mixture of northern and Heiltsuk sculpting.