FROM CARD: "SEE 20690." FROM 19TH CENTURY EXHIBIT CATALOGUE TEXT WITH CARD: "BOWS AND HARPOON-ARROWS USED IN FISHING. BOW: SPRUCE(?); SEMI-OVAL; STRING, A STRIP OF DEER-SKIN. LENGTH, 51 INCHES; WIDTH; 1 3/4 INCHES. BELLA BELLA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. ACCOMPANIED BY THREE ARROWS; LIGHT CEDAR SHAFTS WITH ROUND BONE HEADS; SMALL, DETACHABLE, BARBED TIPS---ONE OF COPPER, TWO OF BONE--THROUGH WHICH ARE ROVE THE LINES MADE OF FINE SENNIT, BRAIDED OF SINEW."AN ARROW WAS FOUND IN THE COLLECTIONS WITH "20690 SWAN BELLA BELLA B.C." WRITTEN ON IT. THIS NUMBER 20690 IS INCORRECT AND IT WAS GIVEN [temporary number] T24240. HOWEVER, THE LEDGER BOOK ENTRY FOR BOW #20912 SAYS "SEE 20690 FOR ARROWS." THEREFORE, ON THE PRESUMPTION THAT THE ARROW BELONGS WITH THE BOW, THE ARROW HAS ALSO BEEN GIVEN #20912. - F. PICKERING 2-11-1997Listed on page 41 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".

Described p. 104 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Bear-skin Cloak. Indian name, "Artleitquitl." Worn by natives when whaling or fishing, or in wet weather on shore. 74 by 43 inches. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan."

From card: "Bear on front and back; wolf on ends; killer-whale on top." Chest; argillite; carved in relief; four added pieces; non-Indian wooden bottom. Illus.: Barbeau, Haida Carvers in Argillite, NMC #139, pg. 60." Barbeau discusses the box on p. 61 and speculates on attributing it to Charles Edenshaw, but notes that "Russ thought it was the work of "Peter Kelley's father" of Skidegate."March 3, 2011, Robin K. Wright, Burke Museum, says "Bill Holm attributes this argillite chest to Haida artist, Tom Price." Ref. Bill Holm, “Will the Real Charles Edenshaw Please Stand Up?” in Abbott, Donald (ed) The World is as Sharp as a Knife:An Anthology in Honour of Wilson Duff. Victoria, B.C.: British Columbia Provincial Museum;1981.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD RATTLE, STAINED BROWN. DESIGN: A HUMAN HEAD. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 264. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."Accession file identifies original #90, Catalogue Nos. E20874 - 75, as 2 war rattles. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies them as from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people, which was transcribed on the catalogue card as Kountznow], Chatham Strait [listed as Chatham Sound on catalogue card], Alaska. Prince of Wales Island has been written on the artifacts themselves by the museum cataloguer and added to the catalogue cards. The catalogue entry on this object in "The Far North" exhibit catalogue, assumed the object was Tlingit, probably from Admiralty Island from the vicinity of Angoon, but noted that the reverse side of the rattle is inscribed Klemmakoon (which is a term Swan used for the Haida town of Klinkwan, which is on Prince of Wales Island.)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=48 , retrieved 1-5-2012: Rattle, Tlingit This very large, round rattle may have been used during war to coordinate an attack or to strike fear and confusion into the enemy. George Ramos (Tlingit) said that rattles like this had been described to him as part of a war leader's outfit. Round stones were traditionally collected at low tide to put inside. The abstract designs may represent a whale or frog, but are difficult to interpret. During Elders discussions in 2005 (see web page cited above for transcription), Donald Gregory (Tlingit) and Delores Churchill (Haida) identified the wood as possibly alder.