From card: "Upper Village. Heavy wedge of yew? with grommet around head. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 1i, pg. 2."

From card: "Large elaborately carved mask representing the eagle. Lower mandible hinged [movable] and supplied with cords for moving it. Crest of feathers and shredded cedar bark above. Painted in red, black, and blue. Loan: Museo Nacional de Antropologia May 18, 1964, returned summer of 1983."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk), Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. The inside of the mask is cedar bark. The group discussed the accuracy of the accession/catalog record. There could have been a possible translation/transcription error; probably originally meant to be 'dancing' mask, not 'davenig' mask. [This error seems to have been fixed]

From card: "Two hollowed pieces of wood joined. Within are two sounders for the reeds."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)".

From card: "Self bow of yew? wood; quiver of skin; arrows short, wood and bone heads 3 feathers; very rude [sic]."

From card: "Raven." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Exhibit Hall 9, case 33, where it was identified as a human-raven mask.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. Having an ear on a bird was common, the masks represents a transformed human or humanoid bird. This one has human eyebrows and a human forehead.

From card: "Barbs of bone lashed with cord and secured with cement."

From card: "Hudson Bay type. Toes turned up."

From card: "Collector's description and legend [which is attached to back of model]: "Heraldic or Totemic column, Bella Coola Indians NW Coast British Columbia. 1. The lower figure represents a dancing mask - NA-TOOST NA-KOX-STA Issuing from the mouth and forming the column are: 2. the LAH-KECT or squirrel. 3. next above THINK-INMIE bat. 4. next above KO-LOU beaver. 5. next above ANOOTS-KOOTS mother of raven. 6. surmounting all is the KWAH or raven. The whole is a pictograph that is a legend of the Bella Coola. James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. November [sic, should be No] 18" In addition to the above text, label on model also has date of Sept. 16? (or 26?), 1884.