FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 1414: P. 453. THE FLAT PORTION FITS ACROSS THE FOREHEAD. 2 SPECIMENS."

FROM CARD: "18905-6. BOTH SPECIMENS BADLY DAMAGED. IDENTIFIED, REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969... #18906 - PLAIN WITH ONE CARVED AND PAINTED CORNER POST."Catalogue No. E18943 appears to be related objects.

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/8 SENT TO SALEM, MA. 1886.

Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify this spoon as Bella Bella. As of 2010, culture in database identifies the spoon as Tlingit, however the source of the Tlingit identification is unknown. The spoon is therefore being listed as both Tlingit and Bella Bella for now.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) 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. In order to make the spoons, they look for parts in the alder tree that have a natural curve. Everyone sat around the big cooking pot and used them for spooning their soup out. Alder wood spoons are for everyday use and horn spoons are used for feasts. Usually when you take on your chiefdomship, or you have a feast, this is one of the items that would sit on top of the bentwood box or it would be publicly handed over.

FROM CARD: "PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. ON ADMIRALTY INLET, PUGET SOUND."

FROM CARD: "20568A & B ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 4 (A ON LEFT, B ON RIGHT), PG. 316. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76." Identified in Handbook caption as water bucket, "... a bent-corner box (the 4 sides made of a single board, kerfed, steamed, and folded into a box shape, the ends joined and a bottom attached with wooden pegs) with a wooden handle acrosss the top." Painted designs in red and black, and borders and handle red. Forms a set with dipper E20568B.FROM CARD: 20568A (BOX), 20568B (DIPPER). FROM PAGE 77, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECTS ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 68. BOX AND DIPPER WOOD; PAINTED BLACK AND RED. HEIGHT (BOX): 10 1/4. LENGTH (DIPPER): 11. BELLA BELLA, BRITISH COLUMBIA. "WATER BUCKET AND LADLE." COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 15, 1876. 20,568-A (BOX); 20,568-B (DIPPER)."Catalog card gives 5260 as accession number, but 4686 (also from Swan, in 1876) is more likely, as that accession contains objects from British Columbia.Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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 is a water cooking box. Food was prepared in these using hot rocks. Everyone had these boxes; families often have regular boxes for eating and cooking at home and boxes for feasts and potlatches.