From card: "This mask represents "Nulmal" used in the fool dance. (See Boas page 477). Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Noolthmalth, or Fool Dancer, Kwakiutl, collected about 1900."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) 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. The mask contains possible human hair and copper inlays. The mask has a classic Nuxalk aesthetic, especially the sculpting in the mouth and eyebrows. Thought to be alder and has parts made of yellow or red cedar. The carver of the piece seems to be someone from Bella Coola, due to the stylization of the mask.

From card: "Polyporus fungus. Pulverized for use as a face paint. Bright red."

From card: "Woven of yarn made of dog hair and mountain goat wool; cape shape somewhat as in Chilkat and fringed on lower and two sides; painted with a totemic pattern of bear. Very rare." Described on p. 125, cat. entry 87 of Salish Weaving by Paula Gustafson, Univ. of Washington Press, 1980 as "Fibres: Mountain goat hair. Colour: Natural white; painted with totemic bear. Weave: Twill. Attributed to Cowichan; but may be Bella Coola"Pamela Brown (Heiltsuk), 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. This robe is used for dancing. This ceremonial robe takes about 12 months to weave.

From card: "Heavy shafted, bone point, 3 spiral feathers, shaft painted in red. A rude [sic] specimen. In case of pine bark."

From card: "Carved and painted."Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder),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. This yew cane, contains a disputed family crest, probably wolf. These types of canes are often used by chiefs.

From card: "Bone sharpened to wedge point."

From card: "Consisting of a wide short bank of coarse checker weaving in cedar bark having a loop at one end and an extended into a rope at the other. Used for climbing large trees. Two short ropes are looped over the large rope."

Listed on page 50 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)".