FROM CARD: "HAIDA DUGOUT CANOE. IN GOOD ORDER."

FROM CARD: "$10.00. THE BEAR, BEAVER & OWL." SWAN'S ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD IDENTIFIES THIS OBJECT AS "CARVED TOTEMIC COLUMN. THE BEAR, BEAVER AND OWL. IN FRONT OF CHIEFS HOUSE, KLEMMAKOAN, PRINCE OF WALES ARCHIPELAGO, ALASKA - KYGANI BRANCH OF THE HAIDA FAMILY OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, B.C." KLEMMAKOAN (THE NAME SWAN USED FOR KLINKWAN) WAS MISTRANSCRIBED IN TYPED ACCESSION LIST AND IN ANTHROPOLOGY CATALOGUE LEDGER BOOK AS BLEMMAKOAN. - F. PICKERING 6-23-1999

FROM CARD: "23383-6. TRIMMED WITH FUR OF SEA OTTER. 23386 -- [negative number] 77-444." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BLANKET.--MADE OF BARK, AND TRIMMED WITH FUR OF THE SEA OTTER AND A WOVEN BORDER OF GRAY HAIR. MAKAH INDIANS (WAKASHAN STOCK), NEAH BAY, WASHINGTON, 1876. 23,386. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Catalog card seems to indicate that catalog number 23386 applies to only one blanket. However, 2 are found in the collection with this number (now part numbers E23386-0 and E23386-1). Perhaps one is misnumbered.

FROM CARD: "EXHIBIT HALL 9, 1987. IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT LABEL AS HUMAN-EAGLE MASK, COLLECTED AT THE VILLAGE OF BELLA-BELLA IN 1875. DANCING MASK REPRESENTING BIRD. ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XVI, FIGS. 28-9, P. 176."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 mask is a humanoid, it's a human ancestor to be danced in the potlatch. The mask depicts human eyebrows and eye sockets, but instead of a nose and lips, it has a beak. It is carved out of alder wood.

FROM CARD: "BASKET IN UNFINISHED STATE. AN ALASKAN WOODEN DISH WAS INCORRECTLY PUBLISHED WITH THIS NUMBER IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 174. THE CORRECT NUMBER OF THE DISH IS 11262."

From card: "Presented by Ellswarsh, chief of Skidgate. Bent bowl; wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. From: Page 68, Boxes and Bowls catalogue; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page.: Bent bowl. Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Length: 16 1/4". Haida, Skidegate, British Columbia. Presented by Ellswarsh, Chief of Skidegate, to James G. Swan, October 1883."Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, "Ellswarsh" may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.

From card: "With 72836 went a long partially curved stick which was returned from Cultural History. 4/15/82."