FROM CARD: "SMALL."

Appears to be a carved wooden version of a three-legged cast iron bellied kettle or cook pot with two body bands and two handle ears.

FROM CARD: "5 CHAMBERED. MADE BY 6 STRIPS OF WOOD BEING HOLLOWED OUT TO FORM THE CHAMBERS. "AN OLD LABEL SAYS THAT IN EACH CHAMBER A PIECE OF FABRIC WAS STRETCHED." SENT AS EXCHANGE TO F. W. GALPIN. HATFIELD VICARAGE, HARLOW, ESSEX. NOV. 25, 1907. 6/3/54 IT APPEARS AS THOUGH THE ABOVE EXCHANGE DESIGNATION WAS NOT CORRECT BECAUSE A SPECIMEN BEARING THIS NO. IS STILL IN THE COLLECTION AT THIS DATE.-R. ELDER. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 57, FIG. 301; P. 330; ALSO IN REPT., 1896, PL. 71, FIG. 3; P. 564." FROM SECOND CARD: "A WOOD WIND REED INSTRUMENT. A SINGLE REED INSTRUMENT OF THE RIBBON VARIETY. AN OVAL BLOCK OF WOOD DIVIDED INTO SIX LONGITUDINAL SECTIONS AND LASHED TOGETHER WITH TWISTED SINEWS. THE SECTIONS ARE SO HOLLOWED TO FORM FIVE CHAMBERS WITH LENTICULAR CROSS SECTIONS STARTING AT THE TOP FROM A SINGLE AIR PASSAGE. THE REEDS ARE OF THE RIBBON VARIETY LIKE A SYUAKER? FORMED BY PLACING A BLADE OF GRASS BETWEEN THE THUMBS. IN THIS INSTRUMENT THE REEDS ARE A STRIP OF SILK RIBBON, 3/8 IN. WIDE, PASSED IN AND AROUND THE SECTIONS AND STRETCHED TAUT ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF EACH LENTICULAR AIR PASSAGE OR CHAMBER. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN PITCH OF THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS. PRODUCING A VERY DISCORDANT SOUND. SEE U.S.M. REPORT 1888, P. 330, ILL. PL. LXI, NO. 319 AND LXII, NO 301. PL. VI-R P. 260, U.S.N.M. AR, 1888. SEE WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART. P. 565, ILL. PL. 71, FIG. 314."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) 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. This wooden horn is possibly made from red cedar. Sound is produced from vibrations of hide inside.

FROM CARD: "HANDLE CARVED. 4/18/67: LOANED TO VANCOUVER ART GALL. 12/13/67: RETURNED BY VANCOUVER. 4/17/67: 2 HOLES."

FROM CARD: "LOAN: R. H. LOWIE MUSEUM, 12/31/64. LOAN RETURNED FEB 15 1966." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DANCING CAPE.---MADE OF A SINGLE PIECE OF BUCKSKIN AND STAMPED WITH BLACK AND RED PAINT. THE HEAD IS ADMITTED THROUGH THE OPENING AND THE CAPE IS SUSPENDED FROM THE SHOULDERS. ATTACHED IS A FRINGE OF BUCKSKIN. INDIANS OF SITKA, ALASKA, 1876. 20,900. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. WORN BY MEDICINE MAN."List in accession file does not identify either a culture or locality for this object. Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Sitka, though that might be the place of purchase?

FROM CARD: "$1.50."

From card: "Large. Kla-ash."Described p. 105 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Basket. A large basket,"Kla-ash," used by natives for holding spear-heads, harpoons, and lines, when sealing. Length, 28 inches. Port Townsend, Washington Territory, January, 1883. James G. Swan. These baskets are never offered for sale. The prices asked for them, when a native is induced to sell, exceed those for the ordinary baskets."