From card: "Wooden."Appears to represent a baby in a cradle.

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=527, retrieved 3-31-2012: Halibut hook. Buoyant yellow cedar wood was used for the upper arms of halibut hooks, dense alder for the lower. This hook has an iron barb, on which octopus was placed as bait.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BULL. 136, USNM, PL. 8-I, P.121."Swan collected two rattles, both Swan original #37. The ledger book indicates the original intention to give each rattle a separate catalogue number: 20786 and 20787. However, when the pieces were numbered during cataloguing, they were instead both given #20786, and were published as a pair under this number in USNM Bulletin 136. As of 2004, they are both still numbered 20786, and the decision has been made to keep them both as that number for now. - F. Pickering

FROM CARD: "SENT AS A GIFT TO CHARLESTON MUSEUM, CHARLESTON, S.C., NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEP 1989 SEE ALSO ACC.#387023."Accession file identifies original #88, Catalogue Nos. E20870 - 73, as 4 baskets from Koutznow [i.e. Hutsnuwu people], Alaska. Anthropology Catalogue ledger book lists locality as Chatham Strait.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label. Written on this pipe in old handwriting: "N. W. Coast - by R. R. Waldron Ex. Ex. b.17." This may mean that Richard Russell Waldron, purser, USS Vincennes, was the collector of this pipe.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.FROM CARD: "WOOD INLAID WITH IVORY."

FROM CARD: "8/17/66: INVENTORIED."Bow and 6 arrows.

From card: "(a) 19 1/8" long, bone splints on ea. side. Collected October 9, 1883."

A box drum. Note re photos: Neg. # 96-20094 shows side 1, and 96-20095 shows side 2, of this box drum's painted sides.Per Repatriation Office research, as reported in the Tlingit case report (Hollinger et al. 2005), this drum was purchased by John R. Swanton from Mrs. Robert Shadesty in Wrangell, Alaska in 1904.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=304 , retrieved 12-30-2011: Box drum Drums sound out the heartbeat of grief, as expressed in the Killer Whale mourning song. Box drums accompany singing during funerals and at the memorial ku.éex' (memorial potlatch) ceremonies that come later. The box drum is a wide plank of red cedar, steamed and bent at the corners, with a separate top piece attached by nails. The painted design represents the Killer Whale. Box drums were traditionally suspended from the ceiling of a lineage house and played by young men; the technique is to hit the inside with fist or fingers to vary the volume and tone.Listed on page 44 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".