FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DAGGER.---BLADE OF STEEL; HANDLE OF BONE, ORNAMENTED WITH A CARVED TOTEMIC DESIGN AND INLAID WITH HALIOTIS SHELL. BELOW THE CARVING THE HANDLE IS WRAPPED WITH BUCKSKIN AND HAS ATTACHED A STRIP OF THE SAME MATERIAL WITH A HOLE CUT NEAR THE END TO LET IN THE MIDDLE FINGER, AFTER WHICH THE BUCKSKIN IS TWISTED ABOUT THE WRIST TO SECURE THE WEAPON FIRMLY IN THE HAND, SO THAT THE WARRIOR NEVER PARTS WITH THIS DAGGER UNTIL DEATH. LENGTH, 19 INCHES; LENGTH OF BLADE, 10 1/4 INCHES. BILQULA INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,643. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." BELLA BELLA AND BELLA COOLA ARE FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA, SO LOCALE CHANGED FROM ALASKA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA.SHEATH IS OF PROBABLE TAHLTAN MANUFACTURE BASED ON ITS STYLE. - MARTHA BLACK, 7 JUN 1994.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Jennifer Kramer (anthropologist) 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 knife is made of whale bone and abalone shells. It is not too often you see a Bella Bella knife with this style of carving and this bone handle. A lot of the northern people had this style of carving and this style of leather case and beadwork. It was probably made by the Tlingit and was traded or traveled south. It could have been ceremonial or used for warfare.

FROM CARD: "REPLACEMENT CARD: INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER, AUGUST, 1983. HAT OF WOOD PAINTED DARK BLUE W/4 BROAD BANDS OF GRAY. HEAD FORMS SHAPE OF ANIMAL W/SNOUT, FANGS. COPPER STRIPS ON LIPS, NOSTRILS. LARGE, METAL COVERED EYES (METAL MISSING FROM ONE EYE.)" Hat also has a column of blue painted cylindrical basketry hat rings (sometimes called potlatch rings) stored with it, which was at one time attached to top of hat.Object has been stored withTsimshian, based on Fort Simpson collection location. Note however that Bella Bella is written inside the hat.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Evelyn Windsor (Heiltsuk elder) 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 is made of spruce root, completely woven. Each of these rings represent how many times the person has potlatched. It may be of Tsimshian or Tlingit origin and it appears that it could be a sea creature.

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD IN THE FORM OF THE RAVEN THE BACK IS CARVED TO REPRESENT A DOWLED HEAD, AND ITS BREAST A MASK. PAINTED RED, GREEN, AND BLACK. EXCHANGED LEIDEN MUSEUM, MAY 1899."The artifact currently numbered E20587 may be the wrong number?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. In Bella Coola, bird rattles are always used by chiefs. It is probably red ochre, there are still a few places on the coast with red ochre. It is possible this is carved out of alder.

FROM CARD: "UNFINISHED."

INFORMATION COPIED FROM LEDGER,AUGUST,1983. "LPX ORDER 670 $91.33"From card: "Brown basket conical hat w/ red and black design."Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk) and Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) 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 hat labeled as Bella Bella was most likely given as a gift, acquired through marriage, or stolen. Heiltsuk hats are never shaped in this way. It has very Makah and West coast design choices.

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: "LONG HANDLE CARVED."