From card: "Wood handle carved into form of raven, wood split and bristles caught between. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 8 third and fourth from left, pg. 246. Ill. USNM AR 1888, pl. 45, fig. 251, p. 318. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64, loan returned Feb. 15, 1966. Loan: NHB Lobby Exhibit Oct. 24, 1991."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies as Sitka, it is unclear when or by whom the attribution on catalogue card to "Skittagetan stock", British Columbia was made.Listed on page 46 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 (Tools)".

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE IN THE FORM OF A HUMAN HEAD COVERED WITH MYTHOLOGICA DESIGNS IN BOTH RELIEF AND INTAGLIO AND PAINTED RED, GREEN, AND BLACK. ACCORDING TO BOAS THE DESIGN IS THE KILLER WHOLE [sic, should be whale] AND IT IS USED IN THE SECRET SOCIETIES. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1895; FIG. 210, P. 657. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 6, PG. 319." Identified in Handbook caption as carved wooden rattle. "A human figure at the top lies with his back to the killerwhale that encircles the rattle. The whale's dorsal fin rises from the back of the figure's head. Carved features are painted in red, green, and black. This specimen, said to have been the property of a "medicine man," was used in the secrect societies according to Boas (1897:654)."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) 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. The name sounds and reads Haida. It appears to be yew. It does not seem to be extremely old because it contains canvas and string, as opposed to hide.

FROM CARD: "OF FLAT COILS OF PLAITED CEDAR BARK."From old label attached to artifact: "Gorgets and Collar of Plaited Cedar Bark for Indian Doctor, Pr. Wales Is., Alaska J.G. Swan."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; P. 63, FIG. 336; P. 344."FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "GAMBLING STICKS.--MADE OF WOOD, THIRTY-FOUR IN NUMBER, POLISHED, AND INLAID WITH ABALONE (HALIOTIS) SHELL. TLINKIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), SITKA, ALASKA. 20,789. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."