FROM CARD: "BELL AND TUBE MADE OF A BLOCK OF WOOD, SPLIT INTO HALVES LONGITUDINALLY. THE DOUBLE REED IS LARGE AND MADE OF PINE IN TWO SECTIONS. WHICH ARE LASHED TOGETHER AT THE BASE. IT IS PACKED WITH STRIPS OF CLOTH INSIDE THE TUBE JUST ABOVE WHERE THE BELL COMMENCES. THIS FORM OF AN INSTRUMENT WITH A BELL AND THE FORM OF THE DOUBLE REED IS PROBABLY COPIED FROM EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTS. SEE U.S.M. REPORT (NIBLACK) 1888, P. 330. LXI, NO. 327; ALSO WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART, P1, 72, FIG. 4."

FROM CARD: "BOX FRONT. (TSIMSIAN). PAINTED BY MR. WALTERS."

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED WITH SMITHSONIAN INST."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=499 , retrieved 4-24-2012: Paddle, Tsimshian. The shape of this well-used canoe paddle is typical for the Tsimshian region on the coast of British Columbia. Its broken tip may have resulted from pushing against rocks during beach landings. Painted clan crest designs cover the blade. Similar paddles, ornamented with tufts of hair, are carried by potlatch dancers.

From card: "Nass and Skeena Rivers, B.C.. Represents an eagle beak."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=700, retrieved 3-31-2012: Mask, Tsimshian. Tsimshian individuals acquired supernatural powers, or helping spirits (naxnox), through a series of ritual initiations held by members of that spirit's society. The spirits, like this bird, were represented by masks. During the initiation ceremony, holders of the power “threw” it into the novices so that it became theirs as well. Masks were kept hidden away except at ceremonies.

From card: "Twined. Decoration, five strips of introduced material, black."