Ruth Demmert and Alan Zuboff, elders, made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24. This is a working hat, either Tlingit or Haida made, and the painted design suggests a wealthy woman owned this hat. This object would be personal property, not clan property. The design might be a raven crest, due to the tufts design older ravens have. Alan comments that, for Angoon, the presence of potlatch rings designate clan property, but he can't say for this hat not knowing where it came from.Hat was purchased by Victor Evans from dealer Grace Nicholson in 1919; Nicholson # 6780, identified as Chilkat (Evans noted that hat was damaged in shipping - crown was broken). See copy of Evans correspondence with Nicholson, dated June 19, 1919, filed in the Anthropology Collections Lab accession file; original of correspondence is part of the Grace Nicholson Papers and Addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; see online finding aid https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf787005cq/ .

From card: "Two-end dagger".

From card: "Cedar bark cape painted with conventionalized [formline] designs on front."

From card: "Recent adaptation of old designs to modern weaving. Designs conventionalized and colored. See Drucker, "Indians of the NW Coast", p. 84, more likely of Salish (rather than Haida) origin." Described on p. 125, cat. entry 90, of Salish Weaving by Paula Gustafson, Univ. of Washington Press, 1980 as: "Fibres: Warp is vegetable fibre; weft is commercial knitting yarn. Colour: Red, yellow, black, green and white. Weave: Twine. History: Blanket. Provenance and collector not known. May be Bella Coola."Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder), Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk), and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) 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 object could possibly be a child's cape, used for the salmon ceremony or used as a modern day welcome mat. The border of the cape tells one where you come from, your rank, and where you fit into society. These crescent shapes are frequently associated with Salish, but Bella Coola is know for being a mixture of Northern and Southern styles.

From card: "Bird figurine carving. Purchased from the "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop", Seattle, Wash. Attached data tag suggests Haida origin. Additional info. in Lab Acc. file."As of 2018, only a fragment of the tag from Ye Olde Curiosity Shop remains with the rattle. It has the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop pricing system price code of "SA.YY" written on it, which translates to $35.00.