This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 23, fig. 91; p. 278, also in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 60; Pl. 15, no. 4; p. 48."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=618 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Adze House and canoe builders did their heavy woodworking with stone-bladed adzes. The grooved blades were basalt, greenstone or jade, lashed to a handle made from a forked tree branch. On great occasions such as a house-building potlatch, the host might carry an adze to symbolize the wealth he had achieved by building and trading canoes.

From card: "'Tadn skillik, and evidence of rank of chief. Each kako or basket (ring) or each section of a carved column represents the number of feasts or distribution of gifts given by the chief.' Swan's descriptive catalogue." AS OF 2006, CAT. #89075 CONSISTS OF ONE COLUMN OF 9 CYLINDRICAL WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? RINGS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. -F. PICKERING 5-10-2006

Goes with model boat, catalog number E72936.

Artifact has 2 original tags attached to it: From first tag: "Smelt Net. J.G. Swan. Made from Nettle fibre. Neeah Bay, W.T. Made by Quillehute Indians." From second tag: "Miniature net. Used by the Indians at Quillehute west coast of Washington Territory to catch the surf smelt. The full size of net used is 5 ft. long 20 inches wide. The net is made of the fiber of the common stinging nettle. James G. Swan, Neah Bay, W. T. Sept. 1879". The back of second tag has a drawing of the net as set up.

From card: "Made by Geneskelos. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, pl. 8, fig. [31, 33], p. 260. 20251A -- Bear design. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum Dec. 31, 1964. Loan returned Feb 15 1966..." From card: "card 2. 20251A illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., vol. 7, Northwest Coast, fig. 8 bottom, pg. 124."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 since 1888 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.