FROM CARD: "PUTNAM, 5/88."

FROM CARD: "ASSIGNED TO DIV. OF PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY DEC. 4, 1900. LENT TO MR. THOMAS WILSON. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION JANUARY 28, 1897."Among the information written on the artifact itself is "W.T.", i.e. Washington Territory.

From card: "Presented by Ellsworth [a.k.a. Ellswarsh], a chief. See U.S.N.M. Report 1888, p. 446, pl. 29. A rectangular box open at top. When used as a drum it is held on one corner, the open top towards the drummer and its sides beaten. The sides and ends are one piece of wood. Three triangular grooves are cut across the piece at the inside where the corners are to come the wood is bent a right angle. What splinters occur are speared off, giving rounded corners on the outside. The sides are painted with their conventional designs of the thunder bird, masks, etc. Used as a drum in their ceremonies." Note re photos: Neg. #s 96-20092 shows side 1, and 96-20093 shows side 2, of this box drum's painted sides.Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, Ellsworth or Ellswarsh may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus [a.k.a. Daniel Elljuuwas], a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD DIVIDED INTO HALVES, LOGITUDINALLY. THE UPPER HALF ORNAMENTED WITH THE HEAD AND BEAK OF A BIRD. PAINTED RED, WHITE, GREEN, AND BLACK."

FROM CARD: "25 CTS. ."

FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 69, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 59. BENT BOWL WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; PAINTED BLACK AND RED; RIM INLAID WITH OPERCULA. WIDTH: 7 1/2. BELLA BELLA, BRITISH COLUMBIA. "DINNER DISH." COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 15, 1876."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. The dinner dish appears to be made out of alder wood, as was usual of most bowls and spoons. Alder wood didn't carry poison, it didn't have toxins like red cedar and yellow cedar.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 1 bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow (of 2) included on loan.From card: "Bow illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 26, fig. 114; p. 286."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on bow and 1 blunt-tipped arrow http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=619 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Bow and arrow, Haida. Hunters shot ducks and geese with blunt-tipped wooden arrows, and they continued to use the bow and arrow on some occasions even after firearms were introduced. Haida bows were made of yew wood and relatively broad in the middle, tapering to the tips. Men carried their arrows in quivers made of seal or sea otter skin.