FROM CARD: REPRESENTS BIRD HEAD; PAINTED IN RED, BLACK AND GREEN." ILLUS. IN BAE BULLETIN 124, PL. 13A, AFTER P. 24. SEE P. 25 IN THAT PUBLICATION WHERE OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A DANCE HELMET REPRESENTING A RAVEN MADE BY JIM HUNTER, A CLAYOQUOT LIVING AT NEAH BAY. - F. PICKERING 7-7-2000

FROM CARD: "54153-5. #54153 - LENGTH - 21" WIDTH 6-1/2" HEIGHT 7"."See Brown, Steven C., 2000, "Turning the Tables: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Southern Design Styles on the Northern Northwest Coast," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3): 48-55. In the discussion in the article on Field Museum of Natural History housefront model and totem pole model Cat. No. 264015, in footnote # 2 on p. 55, Brown speculates on the artist who made it. He notes: "The identity of the artist who created this housefront is not yet certain. Contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth artists have proposed three possibilities: Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim (both Tla'oquiaht [Clayoquot]) and Chel'tus (Ditidaht) (Black 1999:110). The writer's opinion leans toward Chel'tus, because masks more certainly attributed to Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim differ significantly in style from the former artist's apparent body of work." Brown goes on to list other artifacts he attributes to the same artist who created the Field Museum housefront model, including serpent mask # E54153 and humanoid face mask # E30210 as part of his work.

This object was catalogued in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book as Tlingit, Cook's Strait, Alaska. However, written on part of the object in Swan's hand is this information: "Thunder Bird Headdress made and worn by Aitl yu [??] Clyokwat Chief. Vancouver Island, B.C. - James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. Sep. 8 1881." Also, an old tag on the artifact identifies it as "Nootka headdress for Hokoala. Ring of red wool in place of red cedar bark." It is unclear from records if E46496 and 46497 are related objects?

FROM CARD: "50 CTS. ." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "MADE AND USED BY A CLYOQUOT INDIAN WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND B.C." "CLYOQUOT" IS ALSO INDICATED AS TRIBE IN LEDGER BOOK, HOWEVER, THIS WAS MISTRANSCRIBED AS CHILCAT ON CATALOGUE CARD. - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

FROM CARD: "CARVED IN WOOD. CARVED SEAL CLUB. MADE BY CLYOQUOT INDIAN. CLYOQUOT=NOOTKA."