FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "COLLAR OR NECKLACE.---BAND OF CEDAR BARK, BENT IN CIRCLE, COVERED ON EXTERIOR WITH WOVEN CEDAR BARK AND LINES INSIDE WITH DARK GREEN CLOTH. INDIANS NEAR BELLA BELLA. CIRCUMFERENCE, 2 FT. WIDTH, 3 1/2 INS. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,686. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. These cedar collars, worn with anklets and wristbands, were used as forms of protection, but also showed your societal status.

From card: "Not included in Swan inventory"

THIS BUCKLE HAS AN ENGRAVED INSCRIPTION ON THE BACK: "MADE BY KINOWEN A HAIDA AT KLEMMAKOAN VILLAGE ALASKA." KINOWEN IS DUNCAN KIN-O-AN OR GINAAWAAN, AND KLEMMAKOAN IS KLINKWAN, PER ROBIN K. WRIGHT. ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOGUE LEDGER BOOK IS BLANK FOR PEOPLE OR LOCALITY FOR THIS OBJECT. CATALOGUE CARD LISTS IT AS "SITKA INDS. ALASKA." THE MAKER OF THE CATALOGUE CARD MAY HAVE ASSUMED 19553-6 WERE FROM SITKA SINCE 19552 IS IDENTIFIED AS SUCH. - F. PICKERING 6-29-1999 Illustrated Fig. 4.34, p. 209 of Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright attributes to maker Duncan ginaawaan of Klinkwan, and notes that it is inscribed in James G. Swan's handwriting on the back: "made by Kinowen, a Haida at Klemmakoan village." Illustrated Fig. 139, p. 108 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Bunn-Marcuse identifies the buckle as collected by Swan in 1875 at Wrangell from a woman named Annie, who claimed to be a relative of Duncan ginaawaan.

FROM CARD: "1 CAMBRIDGE 5-87; 1 EX. ALBANY MUS. SO. AFRICA APRIL 28, 1904. AS REQUEST W.A. WHITTLE TO THE MUSEUM RIVERSIDE PARK, EVANSVILLE, IND. JAN. 24, 1905."

FROM CARD: "54153-5. #54155 - LENGTH - 23" WIDTH 10" HEIGHT 8"."

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD TO IMITATE SKUNK CABBAGE. ONE TO CIN. ART. MUS. DEC. 1888." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. See p. 206-207 in Wright, Robin Kathleen. 2001. Northern Haida master carvers. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Wright identifies this object as having been collected by James G. Swan from Duncan ginaawaan at Klinkwan in 1875.

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "WORN BY A FEMALE OF TAKOO TRIBE."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=34, retrieved 3-31-2012: Tunic or shirt, Tlingit, Taku, Southeast Alaska.