FROM CARD: "REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER, AUGUST, 1983. HAT OF WOOD PAINTED DARK BLUE W/4 BROAD BANDS OF GRAY. HEAD FORMS SHAPE OF ANIMAL W/SNOUT, FANGS. COPPER STRIPS ON LIPS, NOSTRILS. LARGE, METAL COVERED EYES (METAL MISSING FROM ONE EYE.)" Hat also has a column of blue painted cylindrical basketry hat rings (sometimes called potlatch rings) stored with it, which was at one time attached to top of hat.Object has been stored withTsimshian, based on Fort Simpson collection location. Note however that Bella Bella is written inside the hat.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) 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. This is made of spruce root, completely woven. Each of these rings represent how many times the person has potlatched. It may be of Tsimshian or Tlingit origin and it appears that it could be a sea creature.

CATALOG CARD SAYS SENT TO MRS. J.C. BROWN, NEW YORK. 1902.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD IN THE FORM OF THE RAVEN THE BACK IS CARVED TO REPRESENT A DOWLED HEAD, AND ITS BREAST A MASK. PAINTED RED, GREEN, AND BLACK. EXCHANGED LEIDEN MUSEUM, MAY 1899."The artifact currently numbered E20587 may be the wrong number?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. In Bella Coola, bird rattles are always used by chiefs. It is probably red ochre, there are still a few places on the coast with red ochre. It is possible this is carved out of alder.

FROM CARD: "TWINED BASKET MAT. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL.36, FIG. 183; P. 314. ONE SENT TO THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM, NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEPT. 26, 1989. SEE ALSO ACC. 387023." FROM CARD: "...LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."

FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY IN HALVES, EACH HALF IS EXCAVATED FROM THE OPEN SMALL END OF WITHIN HALF INCH OF LARGE END, AND THE HALVES LASHED TOGETHER. AT THE SMALL END IN MIDDLE WITH LEATHER THONGS, BLOWING IN SMALL END CAUSES THE PART BELOW THE LASHING AT THE MIDDLE TO VIBRATE, ALLOWING THE WIN TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, THUS PRODUCING A SOUND. THE THONGS HAVE BEEN GLUED AND CUT, THE HALVES SPREAD OPEN TO SHOW INSIDE CONSTRUCTION. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; ART. 9., HOUGH HIST. OF INVENTIONS?"

FROM CARD: "1 CAMBRIDGE 5-87; 1 EX. ALBANY MUS. SO. AFRICA APRIL 28, 1904. AS REQUEST W.A. WHITTLE TO THE MUSEUM RIVERSIDE PARK, EVANSVILLE, IND. JAN. 24, 1905."

FROM CARD: "EX. AS RUBBING STONE WITH COPENHAGEN MUS."