Card says "Exchange: Mr. Karl, Australia, February 9, 1898 / Still in USNM collections 1/15/[19]42 JW". Originally catalogued as canoe model, mat, sails, paddles, etc.. 3 parts were found in 2005: Canoe model, and 2 paddles.From Card: " Model of ancient Haida canoe with mat sails as formerly used by the Haidas of Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. The sail was reefed or furled by turning the mast around and winding up the mat. This model made by Kwulka-ass or Johnson at Massett, B.C., July 1883. It represents the famous war canoe of the ancient Haidas but is now superceded by the modern model with both sails of cotton cloth or old flour sacks. Mats are occasionally but very rarely used. Purchased at Massett, B.C. July 2, 3883. James G. Swan."Per John Hudson, 11-2-2010, this is a model of the type of canoe called a Head canoe.

As of 2006 there is only one rattle with this number and it is not a leg rattle. Neither object name nor description in remarks as typed on the catalogue card accurately describe this rattle (they more describe objects like # E89189 or E89190?). It seems some kind of mistake was made when the card was typed, because the object name and remarks on card # E89089 appear to describe this rattle. The object name and drawing in the original Anthropology ledger book for E89088 do match this object, so object name has been changed in EMu to match the ledger book entry. - F. Pickering 9-28-2006

TO REV T.L. FLOOD, PA, 1885.From card: "Canoe- and animal-form bowl; wood; carved in relief. From: page 51, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page. Canoe- and animal-form bowl; wood; carved in relief; length: 10 3/4"; Haida; Skidegate, British Columbia. "Seal." Collected by James G. Swan, October 1883."

FROM CARD: "INLAID WITH SHELL. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BRACELET.---MADE OF HORN AND INLAID WITH PIECES OF ABALONE SHELL, HALIOTIS KAMSCHATKENSIS. NASSES [NASS] INDIANS NEAR FORT SIMPSON. GREATEST DIAM., 3 INS. LEAST DIAM., 2 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,638. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."