From card: "Made from inner bark of pine; used as toy"

From card: "The dish is extremely shallow; the bowl being carved in conventionalized representation of some animal."

From card: "Checkerboard weave. Formerly part of the George Emmons collection, cat. no. 168287 [which was part of Accession No. 28072, accessioned in 1894]."

From card: "Nass and Skeena Rivers, B.C.. Represents an eagle beak."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=700, retrieved 3-31-2012: Mask, Tsimshian. Tsimshian individuals acquired supernatural powers, or helping spirits (naxnox), through a series of ritual initiations held by members of that spirit's society. The spirits, like this bird, were represented by masks. During the initiation ceremony, holders of the power “threw” it into the novices so that it became theirs as well. Masks were kept hidden away except at ceremonies.

From card: "Twined. Decoration, five strips of introduced material, black."

FROM CARD: "WORN AS A FALSE FACE. HAS MOVABLE EYES AND MANDIBLE; MOUTH PIECE OF TIN; COPPER STRIP NAILED OVER LEFT BROW. THIS MASK IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM THE NAIS [NASS] RIVER GROUP OF THE TSINSHIM [TSIMSHIAN]. COLLECTOR'S TAG: #108 TLINGIT INDIAN - TAKU TRIBAL MARK. CONQUERED FROM NUMBER OF FLATHEADS OF NASH [NASS] R., B.C. PRICE $35.00 (SUGGESTED ORIGIN TSIMSIAN)."