CATALOGUE IDENTIFIES AS MADE OF SEA LION THROAT, HOWEVER FRAN REED COMMENTS THAT THIS IS LARGE AND COULD BE WHALE INSTEAD, 2/1999.From card: "Fisnskeu." There is an original Swan tag attached to 88741, marked to indicate that the information applies to E88740, E88741, and E88742: "No. 37, 3 pouches made of throat of sea lion used for holding feathers for dancing. Tisn [or Fisn] skeu. Haida, Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, July 1883, 28 c each."

From card: "Beaver, raven and dog fish motifs." Illus. Pl. 302, p. 382 and described p. 389-392 and 410 in Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as (from top) shark, raven, beaver. Collected at Skidegate.

Both Swan's original tag with the artifact and the Anthropology catalogue ledger book identify this artifact as a "dancing skirt." This was mistranscribed on the catalogue card as a "dancing shirt." - F. Pickering 9-27-2006

From card: "One 10" boat paddle and one sail boat thwart 5 3/4" long (parts of northern type canoe) were transferred back to the Division of Ethnology from the Division of Engineering, January 25, 1934. 5/9/66 Summarized from fragments of a 'Swan' data card: This model and others are made to exact proportions of full length Haida canoes. They are exact representations of modern (1883) Haida canoes. GEP"