FROM CARD: "MOVEABLE EYES AND LOWER JAW." ILLUS. FIG. 51, P. 74, DISCUSSED P. 75, IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY, BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998. IDENTIFIED THERE BY PETER MACNAIR AS FEMALE PORTRAIT MASK.

FROM CARD: "FISH HOOK & BLADDER BUOY WITH FISH LINE."

From card: "Two tusks of the Peccary or Mexican wild hog. Found in the grave of an old Indian doctor at KAH TE LAY JUK TO WOS point, NW end of Graham Id., Queen Charlotte group, between KIOOSTA [Kiusta] and YAKH [Yaku] villages opposite North Island. Collected Aug. 10th, 1883 by James G. Swan. See accession records for additional data."

FROM CARD: "50 CTS. ."

FROM CARD: "...WOODEN HELMET CARVED IN SHAPE OF WOLF'S HEAD, HAIDA ILLUS. IN USNM AR [for year 1888], PL. XIII, FIG. 41, P. 270." Note: this object is catalogued as from Neah Bay, Washington Territory, so it is unclear why this publication caption identifies it as Haida, though some of the other material in this collection is from Alaska. FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEADDRESS.---CUT FROM BLOCK OF CEDAR WOOD TO REPRESENT THE HEAD OF WOLF; MOUTH OPEN, DISPLAYING TEETH; TEETH PAINTED WHITE, LIPS RED, EYES BLACK AND WHITE. EARS ARE SEPARATE PIECES. UNDER SIDE CARVED OUT TO FIT HEAD OF WEARER. WORN IN NATIVE DANCES BY MAKAH INDIANS, NEAH BAY. LENGTH, 12 INS. HEIGHT TO TIP OF EAR, 7 1/2 INS. WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,441. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "$6.00." PROVENIENCE NOTE: ACCESSION RECORD LISTS NO LOCALITY FOR THIS OBJECT. LEDGER BOOK LISTS "B.C." FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA. CATALOGUE CARD LISTS LOCALITY AS ALASKA. SOURCE OF ALASKA IS UNKNOWN UNLESS IT IS A MISREADING OF THE LEDGER BOOK, SINCE 56489 IS FROM ALASKA. - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999