FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 165; P. 548."

From card: "Made of walrus tooth, used by old Nokutsoot of Masset and sold by him to me [Swan.]" See also related object E88748.

From card: "No definite lip but the dish may have been used as a lamp temporarily."

From card: "Carved in crouching position. Neat work. Teeth, eyes, nose and brow inlaid with abalone shell. Painted red. Short bands."Though catalogued as #5 in the collection, and just assumed to be from Alaska, this object is actually #6 on the detailed list filed in the accession record. This list describes it as: "Ceremonial club, from Blunden Harbor [sic, this is Blunden Harbour, which is in British Columbia, Canada], the Kwakiutl tribe, the property of Chief Seaweid [a.k.a. Siwid or Seaweed]. It is carved as the head of a wolf, ornamentally painted and inlaid with haliotis shell. It was used to charm the salmon + halibut back or to bring them in the spring, or when they went fishing and failed to make a catch. A fire was built and they would take the halibut hook a[nd] char the end over the fire, and the club was used as a wand during the feast and dance."Listed on page 42 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".

This object is probably the box described on the December 1881 list in the accession file as "1 small double, oblong compartment box for grease."

WILKES?; SMALL TUBULAR BASKET, DECORATED RIM HAS A BAND OF BROWN TRIANGLES WITH DESCENDING BANDS OF PARALLEL ZIGZAGS. POSSIBLY WILKES/U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION COLLECTION? FORMERLY NUMBERED E2708 BUT GIVEN T NUMBER AS 2708 APPARENTLY INCORRECT, PER JANE WALSH. SPECULATIVELY, THIS MAY STILL BE PART OF THE U.S. EXPORING EXPEDITION/WILKES COLLECTION, EVEN IF THE CATALOGUE NUMBER IS WRONG?

FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM BLOCK OF CLAY SLATE. PROBABLY A BLANK SINCE IT IS NOT DRILLED. GP (DUPLICATE. COPIED FROM CATALOG).Appears to be a ship-motif argillite panel pipe or panel.It may be presumed that this object was probably collected by Dr. John Evans during his surveying in Oregon and Washington Territories and Vancouver Island, 1851-1852 or 1853-1856?