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: "MADE OF PINE. THE BODY IS CIRCULAR, THE BACK AND BELLY ARE BOTH FLAT AND OF THIN WOOD. THE SIDES ARE VERTICAL, OF A BENT PIECE OF WOOD. THE NECK IS RATHER LONG, THE FINGERBOARD ON THE SAME PLANE IS THE BELLY. IT HAS 5 GUT FRETS. THE HEAD IS BENT BACK FROM THE NECK AND FITTED WITH 3 VERTICAL TUNING KEYS. THERE IS ALSO A HOLE IN THE SIDE OF THE NECK 10-1/2 IN. BELOW THE NUT WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN USED WITH A SHORT STRING, BUT IT IS PLACED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE NECK. THE TAIL PIECE IS A SHORT STRAP OF LEATHER. IT IS PIERCED WITH FOUR HOLES FOR STRINGS. THE STRINGS AND BRIDGE ARE MISSING. THE BODY IS SIMILAR TO THE CHINESE MOON GUITAR, WHILE THE NECK RESEMBLES THAT OF THE BANJO, THE UPPER END OF WHICH IS BROKEN."

FROM CARD: "56458-9. 5 SPECIMENS - 25 CTS. EACH. 56459 - ROCKY MT. GOAT. " NOTE THAT NEITHER PEOPLE NOR LOCALITY IS IDENTIFIED FOR THIS OBJECT IN SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD OR IN LEDGER BOOK. CATALOGUE CARD LISTS SITKA, ALASKA AS LOCALITY. SOURCE OF THIS IS UNKNOWN, UNLESS IT WAS ASSUMED THAT LOCALITY FOR THIS OBJECT WAS THE SAME AS 56456. SEE LEDGER BOOK. - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

Listed on page 49 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

From card: "Transferred back to Div. of Ethnology from Engineering, Jan 25, 1934. Clubs are [were] attached to baskets. Illus. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig 5, p 426"

FROM CARD: "25 CTS. ."

FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTED."