FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 40, FIG. 203; P. 316 ALSO Pl. 41, FIG. 217; P. 318. LOAN: R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM, DEC. 31, 1964. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966. LOANED TO THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ON SEPT. 10, 1971. RETURNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 2-9-72. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73."FROM CARD: "20856. FROM: PAGE 59, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 42. CARVED BOWL HORN, CARVED IN RELIEF; INLAID WITH ABALONE SHELL LENGTH: 8 1/4 ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN., JUNE 30, 1875. 20,856."Jay Stewart and Peter Macnair 7-20-2005 identify as mountain sheep horn bowl with abalone inlay.Accession file lists no culture or locality for this object, Swan original # 75. Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies as Haida. Someone, it appears in error, has added Stikine, Fort Wrangell, Alaska to catalogue card.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 29, FIG. 138; P. 286."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Note that 18933 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 60 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.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=519 , retrieved 12-30-2011: Fish spear head This head for a fishing spear has three prongs tipped with metal points. It may have been used for spearing salmon in shallow streams or for taking trout through holes in the ice of frozen lakes.

From card: "Collector's description and legend [which is attached to back of model]: "Heraldic or Totemic column, Bella Coola Indians NW Coast British Columbia. 1. The lower figure represents a dancing mask - NA-TOOST NA-KOX-STA Issuing from the mouth and forming the column are: 2. the LAH-KECT or squirrel. 3. next above THINK-INMIE bat. 4. next above KO-LOU beaver. 5. next above ANOOTS-KOOTS mother of raven. 6. surmounting all is the KWAH or raven. The whole is a pictograph that is a legend of the Bella Coola. James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. November [sic, should be No] 18" In addition to the above text, label on model also has date of Sept. 16? (or 26?), 1884.

FROM CARD: "TO HOLD SWAN'S DOWN FOR CHIEF'S HEAD DRESS."

FROM CARD: "13096-101. 13096 MINIATURE DOOR POST." Accession record calls this a large carving (bear and eagle), Haida.

This basket is small and almost flat-- looks like it might be a lid, but it doesn't fit any of the other baskets in this catalog number.