FROM CARD: "CARVED WOODEN RATTLE. DESIGN: A BIRD ON ITS BACK IS A CARVED HUMAN FIGURE AND AN ANIMAL."

FROM CARD: "WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT. LOANED RENWICK GAL. 11-7-73. LOAN RETURNED 8-24-76."FROM CARD: "FROM: PAGE 79, BOXES AND BOWLS CATALOG, RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN PRESS; 1974. OBJECT ILLUS. ON SAME PAGE. 70. BOX WOOD; CARVED IN RELIEF; INLAID WITH OPERCULA; KERFED, SEWN WITH CEDAR ROOT HEIGHT: 11 1/2 (TLINGIT), SITKA, ALASKA. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. CATALOGED JANUARY 20, 1876. 20,751."

FROM CARD: "1 SHAFT IN 2 PIECES. SEE ANDREWS, "INDIAN PRIMITIVE", P. 15 TOP."

THICK SPRUCE ROOT CORE WRAPPED WITH 2 OR 3-PLY SPRUCE ROOT CORD TERMINATING IN A BONE TOGGLE. HARPOON HEAD IS MISSING.Letter from donor dated May 3, 1978, filed in accession file, indicates that this object was acquired from the Eskridge family in Olympia, WA, who are descended from Governor [Isaac Ingalls] Stevens. This object was said to formerly have been part of the personal collection of James Gilchrist Swan.

FROM CARD: "$1.00."

FROM CARD: "54153-5. #54153 - LENGTH - 21" WIDTH 6-1/2" HEIGHT 7"."See Brown, Steven C., 2000, "Turning the Tables: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Southern Design Styles on the Northern Northwest Coast," American Indian Art Magazine, 25(3): 48-55. In the discussion in the article on Field Museum of Natural History housefront model and totem pole model Cat. No. 264015, in footnote # 2 on p. 55, Brown speculates on the artist who made it. He notes: "The identity of the artist who created this housefront is not yet certain. Contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth artists have proposed three possibilities: Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim (both Tla'oquiaht [Clayoquot]) and Chel'tus (Ditidaht) (Black 1999:110). The writer's opinion leans toward Chel'tus, because masks more certainly attributed to Dr. Atleo or Sitakanim differ significantly in style from the former artist's apparent body of work." Brown goes on to list other artifacts he attributes to the same artist who created the Field Museum housefront model, including serpent mask # E54153 and humanoid face mask # E30210 as part of his work.