5 parts: the head mask, and 4 "fins". From card: "Shark (dog fish) head mask of wood; dorsal fin and tail. Dorsal fin attached by a belt aroung the body of the performer. / See also #150, Cat. No. 89,143. / Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit as Crest Mask- The Dogfish, Haida, collected at the village of Skidegate in 1883."

From card: "Base - A, body - B, cap - C."Descriptive information on the card appears to apply to pole model E23547, not 74745.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. All of these things depicted on the totem pole are how we came into being as we are today. It's the way things were at the time in our ancestors' world before they became mortal beings like we are today. There are some elements that are similar to Captain Carpenter. Maybe this was carved by his teacher or maybe he did this when he was extremely young.

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: "made by Geneskelos. 20251C-- Width - 3.4 cm. Thunderbird [or eagle]."From card: "20,251. Bracelets (2).---silver band, bent in circlets; open spring clasp; exterior chased and engraved. Diam., 2 1/4 ins. Breadth of band, 1 to 1 1/4 ins. Queen Charlotte's Island, British Columbia, 1876. Collected by J. G. Swan for Centennial Exposition, 1876. Made by "Geneskelos," a Haidah Indian of Lashkeeh. Device represents hoort's, the bear, and skamskwin, eagle (or thunder bird)."The original Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies E20251 as one pair of silver bracelets made by Geneskelos. However, at least since1888 there appear to have been 3 bracelets with catalogue number E20251: E20251-0 (20251A) a bear design bracelet; E20251-1 (20251B) a bear design bracelet decorated in a different style than E20251-0; E20251-2 (20251C) an eagle or thunderbird design bracelet decorated in the same style as E20251-0. Per Robin K. Wright and Kathryn B. Bunn-Marcuse, E20251-0 and E20251-2 appear to have been made by Geneskelos. Wright and Bunn-Marcuse doubt that Geneskelos made E20251-1. E20251-0 is Fig. 39, E20251-1 is Fig. 41 and E20251-2 is Fig. 40, all on p. 68 of Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

In addition to the fish line, there are 3 wooden pieces with this object that may be fish lures or parts of fish lures. Two have labels glued on in James Swan's hand: One says "No 15, Kark te whaddie. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery W.T. From James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. Nobember 20th 1882." The second says "Kark te waddie, used in fishing to attract fish, Makah Indians W.T., Neah Bay, W.T. J.G. Swan, Nov. 20th 1882."

From old exhibit label with card: "HUNTING POUCH.--MADE OF RED FLANNEL, ORNAMENTED WITH ELABORATE BEAD EMBROIDERY. RED WORSTED TASSELS, SUSPENDED ON STRINGS OF BLUE AND RED BEADS, ADORN THE LOWER EDGE OF THE POUCH. LENGTH, 15 INCHES; WIDTH, 21 INCHES. HAIDA INDIANS (SKITTAGETAN STOCK), PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,808. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.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=530 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Bag Collector James Swan recorded this beaded bag as a "hunting pouch" when he purchased it at a Haida village on Prince of Wales Island in 1875, but the fine design suggests that it may have been worn on ceremonial occasions. The bag is made of red worsted (a type of wool cloth) with a leather-backed strap; beaded wool tassels hang from the bottom edge. Embroidered lettering on the back reads "MARY.ST, KOOK.SHOE CHU'DESTA, CHARLY M.R., ALASKA.T."