FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR ? P1. VI, FIG. 13, P. 260. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "EAR-RINGS (2).---MADE OF SILVER; PENDANT TO HOOKS FOR LOBES OF EAR ARE FLAT HOOK-SHAPED PLAIN ORNAMENTS. SITKA INDIANS. LENGTH, 1 1/8 INS. BREADTH, 13/16 INCH. ALASKA, 1875. 19,551. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN. NEG. NO. 9994."

FROM CARD: "BASKET WORK."

FROM CARD: "IN FORM OF A BILL OF A BIRD. ILLUS. IN J. SWAN, INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, SMITHSONIAN INST., 1869; FIG. 41, P.70."

HAND ADZED BOARD.

From card: "Collector's data, description and legend: "Model of totemic column in front of chief's house LASKEEK, Queen Charlotte Id., B.C. Carved by Johnny Kit Elswa, Haida interpreter for James G. Swan in 1883. The column of which this is a model was 40' high and 6' across at the base. top - raven HOOYEH fish eagle KOOT center - beaver TSCHING The head with diamond markings is the beaver tail. lower center - bear HOORTS and butterfly STLA-KWAN-MA bottom - bear's wife and young bear ITLTASDODA. James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W. T." 6/13/67 loaned to Nat'l Archives. Returned - 8/5/68".Per Robin Wright, Professor and Curator Emerita, University of Washington, 2018, James Swan's notes for this model pole by Johnny Kit Elswa don't specifically say it's Kitkun's house frontal pole, just a "chief's house." Technically there were several "chiefs" in this village, leaders of different clans. Kitkun was the chief of an Eagle clan (E3) "Those Born at Skedans". His clan had these crests: the multi-ringed dance hat (from the flood story), the dogfish, beaver, eagle, hummingbird, black whale, frog, cormorant, halibut, plus a few others. However, looking at the poles located around Kitkun's house in the village, none of them have beavers. The only beaver poles in the village are at the opposite end, in front of three other houses that belonged to the Djigua Town People E4 clan, which could use the same crests as E3. Therefore Wright thinks the pole E74748 might be based on one of these houses. See George MacDonald's Haida Monumental Art, houses 16, 20 and 23. The Department of Anthropology has one of those poles in the collection, E233398, collected by Newcombe in 1904.

FROM CARD: "THESE RATTLES ARE OF A SIMILAR CLASS TO 20.786, BUT THE STICK IS CARVED, ONE END TO REPRESENT THE HEAD AND BEAK OF A DUCK, THE NECK IN THE MIDDLE FORMS THE HANDLE AND THE OTHER END THE BACK WITH WINGS. IN THE LOWER EDGE OF THE BACK AND WINGS ARE DRILLED SMALL HOLES TO WHICH ARE ATTACHED BY SINEWS MORMON PUFFING [sic, should be puffin] BILLS. ILLUS. IN U.S.M. REPORT 1888 (NIBLACK) PL. LIV, NO. 289. LOANED TO THE DIVISION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 9/30/77. LOAN RETURNED 11/14/77. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. [E20828-0] ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.375, P. 274. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 15E, PG.222. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents catalogue caption identifies E20828-0 as: Tlingit baton rattle. "Tufted puffin beaks were used on baton rattles such as ... [this one], carved as an abstract duck. Wings, tail, and head are detailed with formlines; the long neck forms the handle. Such rattles were used in sets by shamans and dancers," FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "RATTLE.---MADE OF WOOD AND CARVED. DESIGN, A DUCK, WITH ORNAMENTS OF THE BEAKS OF THE PUFFIN. KLOWAK INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,828. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies Catalogue #s E20827 and E20911 as Swan original # 61. List in accession file identifies # 61 as "1 box containing complete outfit of an Indian medicine man, Hannegan Indians, Klawark village, P. of Wales Island, Alaska." Catalogue Nos. E20828 - 38 may be related objects?

FROM CARD: "BASKET. 1 GIFT TO ROCHESTER ATHENAEUM & MECHANICS INSTITUTE, FEB. 14, 1903. ONE-EXCHANGE-MR. G. D. E. SCHMELTZ LEIDEN MUSEUM, LEIDEN HOLLAND. MAY 1899."

Originally listed in Anthropology catalogue ledger book as dance skirt and leggings. At some point when the catalogue card was typed, only the pair of leggings was listed. However all 3 parts are present as of 2003.

RATTLE TOP: IN THE SHAPE OF A RAVEN, ON ITS BACK A RECUMBENT HUMAN FIGURE SUCKING A FROG'S TONGUE, FROG HELD IN BEAK OF BIRD'S HEAD. RATTLE BOTTOM: HAWK'S HEAD. LEATHER THONGS HOLDING HOLLOW TOP AND BOTTOM TOGETHER. SEEDS INSIDE? CARVINGS PAINTED IN BLACK, RED, GREEN AND BROWN PIGMENTS. SEE ACCESSION FILE FOR DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF 1952-53 RESTORATION BY DONOR. TRIBAL AND LOCATION DESIGNATIONS BY WILSON DUFF, 1969.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=716, retrieved 3-31-2012: Rattle, Tsimshian. During secret society performances chiefs carried raven-shaped rattles that portrayed the transfer of spiritual power from animal beings to people. On Raven's back a crested bird holds a frog in its extended beak, and through its tongue the halaayt of the frog enters and transforms a person or spirit in human form. Raven rattles, used by the Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit, are thought to have been first made by a Tsimshian or Nisga'a artist.