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.

72683, 72684, 72696 and 72697 are identified as Swan original # 45. Swan's list in the accession file identifies # 45 as "3 Indian baskets from Sitka, and wooden canoe bailer."

From Card: "[Originally] with totem post [crest column / totem pole]. // The painted house front and back bearing this # are believed to be all that remains of this specimen. No 'totem post' was found. The art style would seen to reflect Kwakiutl work. 6/69 GP"

According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.Catalogue card indicates that a bow and 2 arrows with this number were sent to the Trocadero Museum, France, July 1885.See Cat. 123 and 124 p. 196 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entries are on a bow and 1 arrow, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.434 and 71.1885.78.435, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76294. One of the two arrows that went to the Trocadero is unaccounted for. Note that Smithsonian records only indicate that one object with number E76297 went to the Trocadero, however the Branly identifies 2 arrows, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.422 and 71.1885.78.423, as formerly E76297. It is therefore possible that one of the two arrows the Branly identifies as 76297 may possibly be 76294 instead?

FROM CARD: "20656-7. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; P1. 31, FIG. 161; P. 286."FROM CARD: "HALIBUT HOOK.---LARGEST TYPE. MADE FROM THE FORKED BRANCH OF A TREE, DRESSED DOWN TO NEAT DIMENSIONS. IRON BARB; CARVED WOODEN FLOAT. CAPABLE OF BRINGING UP HALIBUT WEIGHING FROM 50 TO 120 POUNDS. TSIMSHIAN INDIANS (CHIMMESYANSTOCK), FORT SIMPSON, B. C. 20,656. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "A=SHIRT. B=LEGGINGS. LOANED TO THE S. I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. (SHIRT ONLY) A. LOAN RETURNED APR 22 1987."Re photos: Neg. # 31919B is bw view of front of shirt; 31918D is bw view of back.