FROM CARD: "CARVED BOWL, WOOD, PAINTED BLACK AND RED."

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."THOUGH ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS WOODEN, OBJECT APPEARS TO BE HORN.Columbia River/Wasco/Wishram style horn spoon.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED WITH SMITHSONIAN INST."

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED." Illus. p. 255 and discussed p. 255 and p. 383 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books.

FROM CARD: "DEPOSITED."The older of the two Anthropology catalogue ledger books appears to identify this object as a water "beaker." The newer catalogue ledger book and catalogue card transcribe the word "beaker" as "breaker." The object appears to resemble the type of bentwood wooden box sometimes used as a water box or bucket, though no lid or handle are currently present. There are holes on two sides near the top that possibly could have been used for a rope suspension handle at one point. It has been decided, for now, to label it as a water container, pending further information on its use.

FROM CARD: "BROKEN."Plate has been broken and repaired, but one piece is missing. Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including floral and leaf motifs, compass-drawn motifs, cross-hatching.

IDENTIFIED BY PETER MACDONALD, GUEST CURATOR OF THE "DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY" EXHIBITION, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998, AS "ARCHAIC HEILTSUK". BASED ON THIS IDENTIFICATION, WILLIAM STURTEVANT, CURATOR OF NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, DECIDED TO UPDATE THE PERMANENT COMPUTER RECORD AND STORE THE OBJECT AS "BELLA BELLA". IDENTIFIED AS MASK REPRESENTING MALE ANCESTOR, C. 1845, BELLA BELLA, ON P. 189 IN DOWN FROM THE SHIMMERING SKY BY PETER MACNAIR, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 1998.Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) of the delegation from Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Rivers Inlet communities of British Columbia made the following comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit May 20th - 24th, 2013. This was specifically a dance mask, there's a spruce root bite place. It is made of alder and spruce.

FROM CARD: "LADLES OF HORN OF THE BIG-HORN SHEEP. FROM: PAGE 62, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG; RENWICK GALLERY; SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 46. CARVED BOWL OR LADLE, HORN; CARVED HEAD. LENGTH: 9 1/4 [INCHES]. COLLECTED BY GEORGE GIBBS."