From card: "Large double mask of wood ornamented with the fur of the black bear--from Kingcomb Inlet, the coast of British Columbia--the Kwakiutl people. It was known as "Zuno" and is suposed to represent a double dealing man who gave most liberally at feasts but was not to be trusted. It was last used at a feast given at Fort Rupert about 1899. Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as a double faced Dzoonokwa, Kwakiutl, collected at Kingcomb Inlet, British Columbia, about 1900."Emmons describes this mask as being for sale in a letter filed filed in accession 39904, letter dated May 28, 1902 and sent from Victoria, B.C.. He lists it as being from Fort Rupert (presumably because that is where it was last used.)

FROM CARD: "CARVED AND ORNAMENTED."

As of 2009, E67979 consists of a dagger and two sheaths, and E67980, E67981, E67983, and E67984 consist of 1 dagger, each, though originally catalogued as including sheaths. It is possible that one of the sheaths currently numbered E67979 may actually belong with the dagger E67980, E67981, E67983 or E67984?Provenience note: Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists a locality of Alaska for E67931 - 68019. Catalogue cards list a locality of Sitka. Alaska. It is unclear which is correct, though it is probable that the collection was purchased in Sitka.

FROM CARD: "STICKS IN LEATHER CASE."

From card: Northwest Coast, Haida?? Possibly collected by James G. Swan?? Painted blue motifs similar to "Emmons", 1888, Pl. LII, attributed to 'Johnnie Kit Elswa', a Haida Indian. Johnny Kit Elswa was Swan's assistant and helped him collect objects, as well as being an artist himself. - F. Pickering, 2009This may indeed have been drawn by Johnny Kit Elswa. Compare the style to examples of his work in The Dr. Franz R. and Mrs. Kathryn M. Stenzel collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Series II. See in particular "The man in the moon. Haida mythology. Pen-and-ink drawing", https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2003286 .An illustration showing the same design as on this object is visible in a Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Neg. No. 16462, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_008 .

FROM CARD: "THE SHELL IS A BENT HOOP, ITS ENDS SCARFED AND STITCHED TOGETHER WITH A TWISTED THONG, ONE HEAD OF RAWHIDE STRETCHED OVER THE HOOP AND HELD BY WOODEN PEGS DRIVEN IN BACK EDGE OF HOOP. FOUR LEGS OR EARS ARE FORMED ON EDGES OF SKIN AND TWO LINES OF TWISTED THONGS ARE LINES CROSS IN THE MIDDLE, THUS FORMING A HANDLE."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Drum and drumstick on loan.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=521, retrieved 4-24-2012: Drum, Tsimshian. Shamans played skin drums during healing rituals, while performers at potlatches and secret society ceremonies more often used wooden box drums. This instrument is a bent wooden hoop covered by thin deer hide, with crossed rawhide holding-straps in back. The drum stick depicts a killer whale in human form, a tall dorsal fin projecting from its head.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.

From card: "Red on blue octopus motif. A, B, C. trimmed with puffin beaks."