FROM CARD: "STICKS IN LEATHER CASE."

From card: Northwest Coast, Haida?? Possibly collected by James G. Swan?? Painted blue motifs similar to "Emmons", 1888, Pl. LII, attributed to 'Johnnie Kit Elswa', a Haida Indian. Johnny Kit Elswa was Swan's assistant and helped him collect objects, as well as being an artist himself. - F. Pickering, 2009This may indeed have been drawn by Johnny Kit Elswa. Compare the style to examples of his work in The Dr. Franz R. and Mrs. Kathryn M. Stenzel collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Series II. See in particular "The man in the moon. Haida mythology. Pen-and-ink drawing", https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2003286 .An illustration showing the same design as on this object is visible in a Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Neg. No. 16462, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_008 .

FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP, ITS ENDS SCARFED AND STITCHED TOGETHER WITH A TWISTED THONG, ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND HELD BY WOODEN PEGS DRIVEN IN BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR LEGS OR EARS ARE FORMED ON EDGES OF SKIN AND TWO LINES OF TWISTED THONGS ARE LINES CROSS IN THE MIDDLE, THUS FORMING A HANDLE."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Drum and drumstick on loan.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=521, retrieved 4-24-2012: Drum, Tsimshian. Shamans played skin drums during healing rituals, while performers at potlatches and secret society ceremonies more often used wooden box drums. This instrument is a bent wooden hoop covered by thin deer hide, with crossed rawhide holding-straps in back. The drum stick depicts a killer whale in human form, a tall dorsal fin projecting from its head.

From card: "Red on blue octopus motif. A, B, C. trimmed with puffin beaks."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 165; P. 548."

From card: "Made of walrus tooth, used by old Nokutsoot of Masset and sold by him to me [Swan.]" See also related object E88748.

FROM CARD: "THESE ARTICLES WERE RETURNED FROM THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION WITHOUT MARKS. 1 ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; P1. 25, NO. 3; P48. *STORED AS MAKAH (NOOTKA) NW COAST BECAUSE OF RESEMBLANCE TO USNM #4122 (MAKAH-J.G.SWAN)."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Fig. 75, p. 273. Red on blue motifs, poncho type. killer whale motifs. Collector's tag: "Blue blanket embroidered with the Scana or Killer [killer whale; orca] in red cloth. Skidegate, B.C. 1883."