Peale catalogue identifies # 131 as "Cane made by the Indians on the north west coast of America."Cane/walking stick or staff. Tapered cylindrical wooden stick, with carved bear? head and two grooved lines at larger end.

From card: "Northwest Coast, Alaska or British Columbia. Proximal end carved to represent a sea mammal." End may be a seal or seal lion? Possible Catalogue # 13106, which is catalogued as Haida.- F. Pickering 1-7-2010.

Written on artifact, presumably by the cataloguer: "7095 cane carved by Nisqually Indians, Mrs. Jno. Thompson, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1849."

From card: "Carved and painted."Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder),Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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 yew cane, contains a disputed family crest, probably wolf. These types of canes are often used by chiefs.

Originally catalogued as Tsimshian, but accession record identifies this object as "Haidah", i.e. Haida. The entry reads: "1 Haidah cane. Hand holding fish." E20905 is the only cane catalogued in this accession.