Listed on page 45 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: "75 CTS. JUPITER & VENUS AS SEEN IN CONJUNCTION."

FROM CARD: "A TAPERING CYLINDER OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES AND EACH HALF EXCAVATED FROM SMALL END TO WITHIN HALF AN INCH OF LARGE END. THE HALVES ARE BOUND TOGETHER WITH LEATHER THONGS, AT SMALL END AND AT MIDDLE; BLOWING IN SMALL END CAUSES THE LARGE END BELOW MIDDLE LASHING TO VIBRATE AND ALLOWS THE AIR TO ESCAPE IN PUFFS OR WAVES, THUS CAUSING A SOUND. PL. 43, NOS. 9 & 10; P. 48,? (HOUGH, HIST. OF INVENTIONS)."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888, PL. VI-5, P. 260 ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 8 TOP, PG. 124. INVENTORIED 1979."FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "COPPER BRACELETS.--MADE FROM A NUGGET OF NATIVE COPPER, BY COLD HAMMERING. KWAKIUTL INDIANS (WAKASHAN STOCK), BELLA BELLA, B. C. 20,627. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Has movable parts.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on artfact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=613 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Mask Pulling the strings on this Sparrow Hawk mask makes the eyes move, the beak open, and the tongue rise and fall. Haida dance masks were worn during winter "secret society" ceremonies for the acquisition of supernatural power, and often represented ravens, hawks, puffins, oystercatchers, and other birds. The mask is brightened with strips of copper.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR 1895, FIG. 207, P. 654. 'A LARGE WHISTLE USED TO ANNOUNCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF A FESTIVAL. VERY HIGHLY PRIZED. THE NAME IS OOLALLA SPAPOKWILLA, OR OOLALLA WHISTLE.' SWAN'S DESC.CAT." OVER THE YEARS WHISTLE 89063 HAS BEEN CONFUSED WITH WHISTLE 89062. THE WHISTLE NOW CALLED 89063 MATCHES THE LEDGER BOOK DRAWING FOR 89063. - F. PICKERING 6-9-1997

FROM CARD: "18944-5. THESE ARE PART OF A CHILCAT SHAMAN'S SET. ALAN R. SAWYER 2/1982."