FROM CARD: A HAIDA DUGOUT CANOE WITH THIS NUMBER WAS "CONDEMNED OCT. 1933. THIS (CANOE) WAS LATER GIVEN NO. 160335 TO WHICH REFER."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

From Card: "Masts and poles (5) transferred back to Division of Ethnology from the Division of Engineering, Jan 25, 1934 [Canoe model is out on] Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia [Museo Nacional de las Culturas, Mexico City], May 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

Peale catalogue identifies these paddles as "Paddles from Pugets sound, and the river Columbia." Catalogue card identifies as from the Northwest Coast.Three diamond/leaf shaped bladed paddles with T-handle grips. Blades and top of shafts painted red. Parts of blades of # 2 and # 3 are missing, and # 3 is missing part of handle grip.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED WITH SMITHSONIAN INST."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://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=499 , retrieved 4-24-2012: Paddle, Tsimshian. The shape of this well-used canoe paddle is typical for the Tsimshian region on the coast of British Columbia. Its broken tip may have resulted from pushing against rocks during beach landings. Painted clan crest designs cover the blade. Similar paddles, ornamented with tufts of hair, are carried by potlatch dancers.