FROM CARD: "PLAIN BRACELET. INVENTORIED 1979."

Written on artifact itself in old handwriting: "Scoop for bailing out canoe. Haida Indians. Queen Charlotte Id. J.G. Swan." Accession record also mentions 1 Haida bailing scoop as being part of this collection.

NOTE: ALTHOUGH CATALOGUED AS "FORT SIMPSON, B.C" THIS ARTIFACT HAS "BELLA BELLA, B.C." WRITTEN ON IT AND THIS WAS DONE AT THE TIME IT WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED (BASED ON THE OLD HANDWRITING).

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1888, PL. 22, FIG. 86; P. 278. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG.11, PG. 2." FROM CARD: "STONE SLEDGE.---HANDLE OF WOOD, HEAD OF BASALT, WITH LASHING OF SPRUCE ROOT. KAIGANI INDIANS (SKITTAGETAN STOCK), PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,893. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. See p. 206-207 in Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright identifies this object as having been collected by James G. Swan from Duncan ginaawaan at Klinkwan in 1875.

Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say 1 of 2 colymbus skins with this number was transferred to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1867. Not clear where the other skin went, or what the relationship is with the painted wooden items currently found in the collection.