Old label nailed to artifact says: "Boy's Bird-Spear. Made by an Indian boy of 9 years." Makah is written on object.

List in accession file identifies neither a culture nor a locality for this object. Anthropology catalogue ledger book appears to list a locality of Sitka (perhaps purchased here?) and a culture of Makah for E20896 - 8.

FROM CARD: "20820-5: ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 42; FIGS. 227-240; P.318." Identified in the publication as from Kake Tlingit. FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SPOONS.---MADE OF WOOD. USED ESPECIALLY FOR BERRIES, BY ALL NORTHWEST INDIAN TRIBES. KAKE INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,820-25. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. 20820-25 NEG. NO.6212."Florence Sheakley made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These spoons are made of yellow cedar. All of these were made by the same carver. The paddles were made first, and then the carvings were added, but it is unclear why there are holes on the spoons. These spoons were used for blending and making soapberries, which fluff up, similar to a meringue. This is in a set of four, E20819-0, E20821-0, E20823-0, E20824-0

FROM CARD: "MATTING.---WOVEN OF RUSHES. LENGTH 17 FEET 6 INCHES. WIDTH 2 FEET 2 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS, WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,434. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "MAPLE? MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS. *SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD, HOLLOWED OUT, OVAL, MAN'S FACE ON ONE END, ALSO ARMS; FISH HEAD ON OTHER END. ON ONE SIDE OF THE RIM A SECTION HAS BEEN CHEWED OUT."Inscription on bottom of object: "Dish for holding food; Makah Indians; Neeah Bay W. T.; Jan 1864; J G Swann."

FROM CARD: "PAINTED MOSTLY RED AND BLUE."The accession record lists a group of Sitka carvings as part of this accession. This object may be one of those pieces, possibly the one described as "man standing on bear head with a balancing stick in each hand", and thus possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?