Provenience note: locality recorded on the catalogue card is Sitka, however "Admiralty Is." is written on artifact itself by museum cataloguer.

FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. EACH SECTION IS EXCAVATED FROM END TO END. WHEN BOUND TOGETHER FORMING AN OPEN TUBE, WHICH IS ENLARGED. A LOWEND AND AN OBOE OR DOUBLE REED FORMED OF PINE IN TWO SECTIONS IS LASHED TOGETHER AND FORCED IN THE OUTER END."

From card: "Skidgate collection."Incised and carved relief decoration on front, floral motifs, including compass-drawn motifs. Decorative bone inlays.

FROM CARD: "BEAR, CARRYING COPPER ON HIS BACK."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)".

Detail of handle is illus. Fig. 393, p. 284 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: "The handle ... of the Haida spoon features a dragonfly holding a man in its mouth. Though collected from the Haida in the Queen Charlotte Islands, the treatment is reminiscent of Tlingit work, in which representations of the dragonfly also occur."

FROM CARD: "1 PIECE OF MONEY FROM TO PUTNAM 5/88. IN 1991 ONLY TWO COPPER PLAQUE ORNAMENTS WITH THIS NUMBER WERE FOUND, APRON ITSELF WAS MISSING. HOWEVER, A SMALL BLUE CLOTH APRON WITH COPPER PLAQUE ORNAMENTS WAS IN STORAGE AND HAD LOST ITS CATALOGUE NUMBER. IT HAS AN INCORRECT NUMBER OF 6934 SEWN ON, A TAG INDICATING IT WAS TREATED WITH ARSENIC IN 1884, AND HAD BEEN GIVEN T#20255. AFTER CONSULTATION WITH DR. WILLIAM STURTEVANT IT WAS DECIDED TO GIVE THE APRON #20814 BECAUSE: 1. APRON MATCHES BRIEF DESCRIPTION ON CARD OF 20814. 2. APRON WAS MISSING SOME COPPER ORNAMENTS AND THE ONES IT DID RETAIN CLOSELY RESEMBLE THE TWO NUMBERED 20814. 3. THIS TYPE OF ARTIFACT IS FAIRLY UNIQUE AND A SEARCH OF MUSEUM RECORDS REVEALED NO OTHER PRE-1885 PIECES OF THIS TYPE CATALOGUED IN OUR COLLECTIONS. -F. PICKERING 1-24-1991."Provenience note: Ledger book lists this as "Nimpkish Ind., Alert Bay, Alaska." The "Alaska" locality appears to be a cataloguing error, as Alert Bay is in British Columbia, not Alaska, and there is material included in this accession from both Alaska and B.C..