This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=523, retrieved 4-24-2012: Tobacco box. This seamless tobacco box is made from a coconut, an exotic item that could have washed ashore on the British Columbia coast after drifting across from Asia on the Japanese Current. Alternatively, it might have been brought by an American fur trade vessel that had called at Hawaii or other South Pacific port on its way north. The Tsimshian and neighboring coastal peoples cultivated a species of native tobacco before Western contact, mixing it with seashell lime for chewing.

Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder), and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) 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 dance image or puppet looks to be whittled noncommittally. It is unfinished, probably produced for tourists. It is made from alder wood. Puppets are very sacred and have power in them that can make you behave a certain way. This object was viewed alongside E073744-0.

Design on basket identifed as track of land otter by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003.

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DAGGERS OF THE CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK). BLADE, LEAF-SHAPED, MADE OF OLD FILES. HILT, OF BONE, IN TWO PLACES RIVETED. OPEN AND FLAT TANG. THE GRIP IS SIMPLY CUT AWAY SLIGHTLY TO FORM A PLACE FOR THE HAND. IN ONE EXAMPLE A LOOP OF BRASS OCCUPIES THE PLACE OF A POMMEL. WASHINGTON STATE. 18,920; 23,348; 23,349. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."