As of 2010, no glass bottle is present; there is only a bottle-shaped basket with this number.

From card: "Arrow illus. in Smithsonian Rept. 1893; Pl. 50; fig. 5; p. 679."According to the accession record, Swan acquired 2 crabapple wood bows, with arrows, and 2 mountain yew wood bows, with arrows, from the maker, Tahahowtl or Byron, a Makah Indian of Neah Bay, Washington. These objects were catalogued as numbers E76294 - E76297.

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO TROCADERO, FRANCE. 1885, HOWEVER A FLOAT WITH THIS NUMBER IS IN THE COLLECTION.Described p. 102 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Seal-skin Buoy. Skin of hair-seal, small stationary wooden toggle at either end for holding eye-splice of harpoon-line. Small laniards made of fibers of spruce roots, for making fast to other buoys. Indian name, "Do-ko-kuptl." Length, 38 inches. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Inflated and attached to the harpoon, showing the manner in which the apparatus is used during the capture. A number of buoys being made fast to the whale prevents its progressive motions, thus affording the natives an opportunity to kill it with the lance (72674)."

From card: "Miniature."

FROM CARD: "DUPLICATED IN 1898 BY #178981."

FROM CARD: "LIGHTNING TOMANAWOS. COLLECTOR'S LEGEND: "THE HAK TAKE TO AK, OR LIGHTNING TAMANAWOS OF THE MAKAH INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, W. T. THE BIRD ON THE FRONT IS THE CLOVIS OR THUNDERBIRD. THE BACK I SUPPOSE IS THE WHALE AND THE ENDS THE PRIVATE HERALDRY SIGNS OF CERTAIN CHIEFS. THUNDERCLOUDS ARE SUPPOSED BY THE COAST TRIBES TO BE UNIVERSE BIRDS AND LIGHTNING TO BE A FABULOUS ANIMAL LIKE THE SEAHORSE WHICH THE BIRD COLLECTS FROM THE OCEAN IN GREAT NUMBERS. SHE KEEPS CONCEALED AMONG HER FEATHERS. THUNDER IS CAUSED BY THE FLAPPING OF ITS WINGS AND LIGHTNING BY ITS DARTING DOWN, ETC. HAH TAKE TO AK WITH ITS FIREY TONGUE. PORT TOWNSEND, W. T. J. G. SWAN 1861".Some of the motifs carved and painted on this stone are similar in style to the ones depicted in a drawing/watercolor done by James G. Swan, dated November 29, 1859 and titled "Thunder Bird of the Makahs from the Tamanous [i.e. tomanawos] board in the house of the late Yellicom or Flattery Jack". This drawing is illustrated on p. 76 of Miles, George A., James Gilchrist Swan, Franz Stenzel, and Kathryn M. Stenzel. 2003. James Swan, cha-tic of the Northwest Coast: drawings and watercolors from the Franz & Kathryn Stenzel collection of western American art. New Haven, Conn: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. The drawing is also discussed on pp. 22 of this publication.