Per Dall's field catalogue, filed under Accession No. 3258, entry under # 615, collector is [Captain] A. [Amos] T. Whitford.Listed on page 46 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "MODELED BY ANTHRO. LAB."No catalog card found in card fileAnthropology Catalogue ledger book indicates this is a model of artifact E20614, modeled by the Anthropology Laboratory for exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. The ledger lists the name of C.R. Luscombe, who is presumably the model maker. One of the two catalogue cards for E20614 also lists this model as "made by C. R. Luscombe at Anthropological Laboratory".

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=523, retrieved 4-24-2012: Tobacco box. This seamless tobacco box is made from a coconut, an exotic item that could have washed ashore on the British Columbia coast after drifting across from Asia on the Japanese Current. Alternatively, it might have been brought by an American fur trade vessel that had called at Hawaii or other South Pacific port on its way north. The Tsimshian and neighboring coastal peoples cultivated a species of native tobacco before Western contact, mixing it with seashell lime for chewing.

The glass bead is blue.

The bead is white.