FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBT LABEL WITH CARD 18920: "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."

FROM CARD: "PARTLY PREPARED."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "... NO. 23439 - NOOTKA MASK - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 198; P. 635. NEG. NO. ... 86-11790." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESS.---BOX-SHAPED; MADE OF LIGHT WOOD, THE SIDES BEING CARVED AND PAINTED TO REPRESENT PROFILE OF HORSE'S HEAD JOINED AT NOSE AND WIDELY SEPARATED BEHIND. THE HOLE FOR TOP OF HEAD IS WELL BACK AND UNDERNEATH. WORN BY MAKAH INDIANS OF NEAH BAY IN THEIR DANCES. LENGTH, 22 INS. WIDTH, 11 INS. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, 1876. 23,439. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

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.