FROM CARD: "WOODEN BIRD'S HEAD WITH PAINTED BUCKSKIN CUT IN FORM OF BODY, TAIL, AND WINGS ATTACHED TO BACK OF MASK. LOANED: 4/30/1965. THE TEXTILE MUSEUM. RETURNED: . LOANED: 4/18/1967 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY. RETURNED: 12/13/1967. LOAN DATA: VERY FRAGILE, COPPER LOOSE. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED FEB 9 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---CAP OF WOOD, CARVED HEMISPHERICALLY TO FIT HEAD, AND SURMOUNTED BY CARVED AND PAINTED EYES AND BEAK OF BIRD PROJECTING FORWARD. EYES AND MOUTH OF COPPER; TEETH OF ROWS OF SMALL WHITE SHELLS. ATTACHED TO HEAD AND PENDANT BEHIND ARE PAINTED WINGS, BODY, AND TAIL OF BIRD CUTFROM SKIN OR PARCHMENT. INDIANS NEAR BELLA BELLA. WORN IN NATIVE DANCES. LENGTH, TOTAL, 33 INS. LENGTH OF WOOD, 16 1/2 INS. HEIGHT, 5 3/4 INS. WIDTH, 7 1/2 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,571. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT HOOYEH (THE CROW), WHICH IS CONNECTED WITH THEIR TRADITIONS AND HELD BY THEM IN HIGH REGARD." ILLUS. FIG. 90, P. 115, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY, BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS HEADDRESS MASK REPRESENTING EAGLE, CIRCA 1860.'EAGLE MASK WITH PAINTED TRAILER PROBABLY MADE BY HEILTSUK ARTIST KNOWN BY HIS ENGLISH NAME AS CAPTAIN CARPENTER. - BILL MCLENNAN, MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 12 APR 1996.Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) 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. The teeth are small shells from the sea snail harvested at the beach. It is made from some sort of animal hide and representations of eagles are found through out. This piece is typical of artist, Captain Carpenter. The eye socket and eyebrow appear to be a mixture of northern and Heiltsuk sculpting.

FROM CARD: "EXCHANGED WITH MRS. J. CROSBY BROWN, JAN. 3, 1896." ACCESSION RECORDS AND LEDGER DRAWINGS INDICATE THAT THERE WERE 6 INVERTED DOUBLE REED WHISTLES, ORIGINAL #80, AND 2 OOLALLA WHISTLES, ORIGINAL #S 81 AND 82. UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO A MISTAKE DURING CATALOGUING, ONLY 7 CATALOGUE NUMBERS WERE ASSIGNED TO THESE 8 OBJECTS. ONE OF THE REED WHISTLES AND OOLALLA WHISTLE #81 WOUND UP AT ONE POINT BOTH BEING CALLED CATALOGUE #89062. AS NOTED ABOVE, THE REED WHISTLE ORIGINALLY GIVEN CATALOGUE #89061 HAS BEEN EXCHANGED. THEREFORE THE "EXTRA" REED WHISTLE ONCE NUMBERED 89062 HAS BEEN GIVEN #89061, TO DISTINGUISH IT FROM THE OOLALLA WHISTLE WHICH HAS BEEN KEPT AS 89062. - F. PICKERING 6-9-1997

As of 2010, no glass bottle is present; there is only a bottle-shaped basket with this number.

A DOWN BLANKET WAS FOUND WITH #2125 ON IT. 2125 IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SALISH BLANKET OF SHEEPS WOOL, THEREFORE JANE WALSH DETERMINED THAT THE DOWN BLANKET WAS MOST PROBABLY ONE OF THE DOWN CAPES # 1296 A & B. ONE OF THESE CAPES WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO DENMARK, BUT SINCE 2119 ANOTHER DOWN BLANKET WAS SENT, THE SMALLER ONE WAS NOT. THE DOWN BLANKET NUMBERED 2125 IS NEARLY IDENTICAL TO 1296 (I.E. 1296A), AND IS THEREFORE PRESUMED TO BE THE SECOND 1296 AND HAS BEEN GIVEN THIS NUMBER, 1296B.Records in the SI Archives of the Office of Distribution say one of these (1296A or B) was transferred to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1867, but apparently neither was actually sent.

FROM CARD: "54093-54100. #54093 - 81 X 39. 54094 - 86 X 43. 54095 - 84 X 39. 54096 - 82 X 43. 54097 - 92 X 48. 54098 - 88 X 49. 54099 - 78 X 43. 54100 - 84 X 42. NO. 54097 SENT AS A GIFT TO PUBLIC MUSEUM, HARRIMAN, TENN., JUNE 27, 1922."

From card: "Ilus. in USNM Rept 1895; fig. 202, p. 652. 11/1963 All that is left is a well carved human head showing where hair tufts had once been inserted all over the top, and hollow back where the rattle element had been held in by a piece of leather fastened over the hole (just edges of leather left. Stem at the neck point appears to indicated that something else was once fastened on. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum 12/31/64, loan returned feb 15, 1966." Identified in USNM Annual Report for 1895 figure caption as "Part of a headdress representing the Olala." On p. 653 of this publication it is noted about 89038, 89039, 89072 and 89073: "In his dances the olala of all the northern tribes use headdresses which represent a corpse...." From second (newer) card: "Made of carved wood in two longitudinal sections. Design: Head of "Oala" [sic, should be Olala, Oolala, Ulala] (The mountain demon). Tufts of hair are secured in small holes in top and back of head. A square hole is inserted in back of head and the neck is fitted to attach it to a staff. Illust. in USNM Rept., 1895, fig. 202, p. 652. Loaned to the Whitney Museum of American Art 9-10-71. Returned ... 2-9-72."Provenience note: Swan list for this object in accession file, under #91 on list of objects collected at Skidegate, Skedans, Laskeek, and Fort Simpson, B.C. in the summer of 1883, identifies it as collected at Skedans, and calls it "old head of Oolalla."