FROM CARD: "DESCRIPTION AND LEGEND ON REVERSE. COLLECTOR'S DESCRIPTION: "CARVED COLUMN LIKE......ERECTED IN FRONT OF CHIEF RESIDENCES QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B.C. LEGEND. THE LOWER FIGURE IS THE GRIZZLY BEAR HOORTS. ON HIS HEAD IS THE CODFISH (MYTHOLOGICAL) KAHATTA INDICATED BY THE TEETH AND SCALES. THE UPPER FIGURE IS THE BEAVER TSING. HIS HEAD IS SURMOUNTED BY THE HAT WORN BY CHIEF TO INDICATE THEIR RANK. IT IS COMPOSED OF BASKET WORK AND THE NUMBER OF THESE INDICATES THE DEGREE OF RANK ATTAINED BY THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE IN FRONT OF WHICH THE COLUMN IS SET UP. IT IS HEARALDIC AND INDICATES THE TOTEM OR FAMILY CONNECTIONS. JAMES G. SWAN, PORT TOWNSEND, W. T. JULY 6TH, 1882." IDENTIFIED AS MODEL OF CARVED COLUMN IN FRONT OF CHIEF'S HOUSE SKIDEGATE IN LEDGER BOOK AND SWAN'S LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD. - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

FROM CARD: "INDIAN NAME; CHUCK KOWIS."

SENT AS A GIFT TO NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, RUTHERFORD, N.J., JUNE 27, 1922

FROM CARD: "SHELL, A HOOP, THE JOINT IS SCARFED AND LASHED. ONE HEAD STRETCHED OVER HOOP AND HAILED TO BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR STRIPS OF HIDE FORM THE HEAD; ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND TIED IN THE MIDDLE, FORMING A CROSS FOR A HANDLE." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HAND DRUM OF THE TLINKITS, KOLUSCHAN FAMILY. SHELL, A HOOP OF WOOD; HEAD, OF SKIN, SOAKED, STRETCHED ACROSS THE HOOP AND NAILED TO THE BACK EDGE, THE HANDLE BEING FORMED OF THONGS TIED TOGETHER AT THE BACK. DIAMETER, 14 1/2 INCHES. SITKA, ALASKA. 20,731. COLLECTED, 1875, BY JAMES G. SWAN."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Paper labels inside dish read: "No 47 Paint dish, Haida, Skidigate $1 Sep 1883 J. G. Swan. No 47. This very fine specimen was purchased at Skidigate Queen Charlotte Island Sep 1883 for $1.00 J. G. Swan"."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=629 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Paint Dish, Haida. This stone dish from Skidegate was used for blending oil-based colors to apply to the body and face, or for mixing paints to use on hats, masks, boxes, and other work. For the latter purpose, crushed salmon eggs were added as a fixative. Charcoal, roasted tree fungus, ocher, cinnabar, and berry juices were among the common coloring materials. The bottom of the dish is carved with a Sea Bear and Killer Whale, both crests of the Raven moiety.