FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD IN THE FORM OF A FISH WITH THE HANDLE PROJECTING FROM NEAR THE TAIL. THE BODY MADE IN TWO SECTIONS HOLLOWED AND FASTENED TOGETHER. DESIGN: "ORCA". THE WHOLE CHARACTERIZED BY THE DORSAL FINS AND FORMIDABLE TEETH. SEE U.S.M. REPORT (NIBLACK) 1888, PL. LIX, NO. 310. PAINTED RED AND BLACK. (P. 330)."

FROM CARD: "EX. CANTERBURY MUS. JUNE 1900. GIFT-TO MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA. AUG. 6, 1906. C/O DR. F. Y. JAMESON, PRES'T."

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1887. LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY 1 OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885.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.See Cat. 120 and 121 p. 195 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 2 arrows, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.422 and 71.1885.78.423, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E76297. Note that Smithsonian records only indicate that one object with this number went to the Trocadero. Also, Smithsonian records indicate that a bow and 2 arrows number E76294 went to the Trocadero, however the Branly only has accounted for a bow and one arrow. It is therefore possible that one of the two arrows the Branly identifies as 76297 may possibly be 76294?

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Wood. Carved in relief. From: page 44, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. same page. Animal-form bowl; Wood; carved in relief; Length: 7 [in.]. [Haida], Massett, British Columbia ... Collected by James G. Swan, July 1883."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=620 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Bowl Beaver is an important Haida crest, claimed by almost all clans of the Eagle moiety (or clan group). The animal is often shown with a stick in its mouth, as on this feast bowl. In an incident from oral tradition, Raven steals the salmon-rich lake owned by a Beaver chief, rolls it up, puts it in his beak, and flies up into a tree. Beavers, bears, and wolves come to the Beaver chief's aid, toppling the trees where Raven is perched in an effort to catch him. Raven flies away, spitting out water that becomes the Skeena, Stikine, and other rivers.

MODEL OF DUGOUT CANOE; 4 STRUTS, 4 TOTEMIC DESIGNS (KILLER WHALE ?) PAINTED ON SIDES IN RED & BLACK.Letter from donor dated May 3, 1978, filed in accession file, indicates that this object was purchased from Mrs. Charles Bartlett of Port Townsend, WA. Her husband Mr. Charles Bartlett was one of the earliest settlers of Port Townsend. Object said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan.