FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: *SPANISH. REMARKS: *CIRCA. 1792."Bricks are from Fort Nuñez Gaona (1792-1792) - A Spanish Colonial Fort established in 1792 in present day Neah Bay, Clallam County, Washington. Named Fort Nuñez Gaona after Admiral Manuel Nuñez Gaona, then a high ranking naval official. The first white settlement in Washington State. Abandoned later in 1792 after only four months of operation. See: http://www.fortwiki.com/Fort_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Gaona.

FROM CARD: "23409-410. ANIMAL FORM BOWLS; CARVED IN RELIEF." FROM CARD: 23409. FROM: PAGE 35, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 3. ANIMAL-FORM BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF LENGTH: 10 3/4 ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JUNE 12, 1876. 23,409."

FROM CARD: "TROCADERO."

As of 2010, this object appears to be missing some of its parts/incomplete. It currently consists only of a carved and painted flat wooden bird figure. Back of figure appears to be marked possibly "Sitka" and $2.00. The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man standing on bird" (though the figure of the man is not currently present). Accession record lists a price of $2.00 for that carving. Based on the Sitka locality, it is possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BULL. 136, USNM, PL. 8-I, P.121."Swan collected two rattles, both Swan original #37. The ledger book indicates the original intention to give each rattle a separate catalogue number: 20786 and 20787. However, when the pieces were numbered during cataloguing, they were instead both given #20786, and were published as a pair under this number in USNM Bulletin 136. As of 2004, they are both still numbered 20786, and the decision has been made to keep them both as that number for now. - F. PickeringListed on page 42 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

From card: "#88828 Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 28, fig. 128, p. 286." Artifact has old label: "No. 107 sea otter club for killing otter, Haida, Massett, July 1883, J. G. Swan, 35 cents?"