From card: "Arrow illus. in Smithsonian Rept. 1893; Pl. 50; fig. 5; p. 679."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.

FROM CARD: "54126-35. #54129 - 86 X 44"."

FROM CARD: "HAS TRACES OF RED PAINT. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MODEL OF TOTEM POST.--A SLATE COLUMN CARVED IN TOTEM DESIGNS. THE OPENING NEAR THE BOTTOM REPRESENTS THE ENTRANCE TO THE DWELLING IN FRONT OF WHICH THE TOTEM POSTS ARE ERECTED. HEIGHT, 16 1/2 INCHES; DIAMETER, 3 INCHES. HAIDA INDIANS (SKITTAGETAN STOCK), PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA. 23,339. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. TOTEM POSTS ARE TALL, CARVED WOODEN COLUMNS ERECTED IN THE FRONT OF HOUSES, AND ARE GENERALLY SU MOUNTED BY THE CLAN-TOTEM OF THE CHIEF OCCUPANT. THOSE FIGURES CARVED BELOW EITHER REPRESENT THE TOTEM OF THE WIFE OR ILLUSTRATE SOME LEGEND CONNECTED WITH THE TOTEM OF THE HUSBAND. NONE BUT THE WEALTHY CAN AFFORD TO ERECT THESE COLUMNS, AND THE OWNER IS THEREBY INVESTED WITH RESPECT AND AUTHORITY." Illus. Pl. 169, p. 208 and described p. 214 and 228 in Thunderbird chapter of Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as house-front type totem pole model. Top is thunderbird with long incurved bill, pegged on, whose wings droop down the sides; on his head sits a small human being (head, presumably ivory, is now missing), with hands on his knees; in front of thunderbird, between wings sits a chief with conical hat and skils [hat rings or potlatch rings], his feet rest upon head of a small grizzly bear; under wings of bird on either side, the frog appears, head down; figure squatting at the bottom, through whose body the small oval doorway is cut into the house is the grizzly bear, his forepaws are turned down on his chest, and lower paws point inwards.

FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: HAIDA**. REMARKS: PROVENIENCE DATA FROM AN ORIGINAL MARK ON BOTTOM OF SPECIMEN. **DR. PHILIP DRUCKER SAYS THAT IT GENERALLY HAS A KWAKIUTL APPEARANCE, (BAE BUL.. 144, P. 72). 4/18/67 LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART. GALLERY, RETURNED 13/13/1967.

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885, HOWEVER A FLOAT WITH THIS NUMBER IS IN THE COLLECTION.Described p. 102 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-skin Buoy. Skin of hair-seal, small stationary wooden toggle at either end for holding eye-splice of harpoon-line. Small laniards made of fibers of spruce roots, for making fast to other buoys. Indian name, "Do-ko-kuptl." Length, 38 inches. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Inflated and attached to the harpoon, showing the manner in which the apparatus is used during the capture. A number of buoys being made fast to the whale prevents its progressive motions, thus affording the natives an opportunity to kill it with the lance (72674)."

FROM CARD: "18905-6. BOTH SPECIMENS BADLY DAMAGED. IDENTIFIED, REPAIRED AND PARTIALLY RESTORED IN 1969. #18905 - PAINTED FRONT AND CARVED AND PAINTED CORNER POSTS."Per Robin Wright, Burke Museum, 4-12-2012, this is an unusual model with wooden coppers on the corner posts and a set of figures that go with it, Tlingit in style. (The figures are Catalogue No. E18907-0).

From card: "Formerly belonged to Kitun, a "great chief". Painted; has moveable [movable] beak and eyes. Feather down encircles border. Excellent old mask. Loaned: Buenos Aires, March 25, 1954. Retd.: 1955. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Crest mask - the raven, collected from Gitkun, chief of the important village of Laskeek, or Tanu. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, fig. 12f, pg. 250."Raven mask appears in Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=175 , retrieved 6-24-2012.