FROM CARD: "NAME: *COIL WHALING ROPE. REMARKS: MADE OF SPRUCE ROOTS. *12/13/66 HARPOON HEAD SHEATH LOCATED WITH THIS NUMBER. GP."SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO E. LOVETT, GREAT BRITAIN. 1889.

FROM CARD: "23355-6. VERY LARGE. 23356 EX. G. T. EMMONS APRIL 28/04. PRINCETON,N. J."

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: "Skidgate [Skidegate] collection. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; pl. 48, fig. 272, p. 322. Loan to R. H. Lowie Museum 12/31/64. Loan returned Feb 15, 1966." Illus. Pl. 59, p. 48, and described p. 47 in Barbeau, Marius. 1957. Haida carvers in argillite/ Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, National Museum of Canada. Barbeau attributes to carver Tom Price. Motifs: 2 bears on outside and 2 bears and 2 eagles on inside of dish or plate.

FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP OF PINE, THE JOINT SCARFED AND NAILED. ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE OR THIN SKIN. WHEN GREEN IT IS STRETCHED ACROSS AND OVER THE HOOP AND FASTENED TO BACK EDGE WITH WOODEN PIN, EXCEPT IN THREE PLACES WHERE THE SKIN WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH IT IS PEGGED ON OUTSIDE OF HOOP. TWO PAIRS OF HOLES OF THE PAIRS ABOUT 9 INCHES APART ARE MADE THROUGH HOOP AND SKIN 1-1/4 INCHES FROM BACK EDGE AND TWO RAWHIDE THONGS ARE STRETCHED ACROSS BACK OF HOOP SO AS TO CROSS AT THE MIDDLE. A ROPE OF HEMP IS WOUND LENGTHWISE OF THE CROSSING TO FORM A HANDLE."Ruth Demmert, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This drum is a Tlingit design and is made with bentwood and deer hide.

FROM CARD: "13096-101. #13099 LOANED TO IAIA SANTA FE., NM 1 APRIL 1966. LOAN RETURNED NOV 28 1966."Carved wooden figure of a man sitting on a box. Rattles are inside the box. 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 on box", and thus possibly Tlingit rather than Haida?

FROM CARD: "TWINED BASKET MAT. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL.36, FIG. 183; P. 314. ONE SENT TO THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM, NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEPT. 26, 1989. SEE ALSO ACC. 387023." FROM CARD: "...LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."

FROM CARD: "EX[changed]. OCT. 30, [18]85"