From card: "Chest; carved in relief; four added pieces; cover. "in high relief: bear's head holding a man on front and on the back the hind part of the bear; ends, Kye, or the sealion, holding a salmon in its mouth; top, Hoorts, the bear." Swan. USNM A.R. 1888, fig. 243, pl. 44, pg. 319. (Incorrectly numbered as 89000.) M. Barbeau, "Haida Carvers in Argillite," Nat. Mus. of Canada Bull. 139 (Anthro. Series 38) [Pl. 73, p. 65, and discussed p. 64-65], From: Boxes and Bowls catalog, Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illustrated on same page.: Chest, Argillite; carved in relief; four added pieces. Length: 20 1/4. [Haida], Skidegate, British Columbia. "Bear on front and back, seahorse on ends, bear on top." [Tentatively attributed to the artist Charles Edenshaw, by Bill Holm]. Collected by James G. Swan, October 9, 1883." Attributed to Charles Edenshaw by Barbeau. Attribution tentatively supported by Bill Holm, 1973.March 3, 2011, Robin K. Wright, Burke Museum, attributes to John Robson.

This object was catalogued in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book as Tlingit, Cook's Strait, Alaska. However, written on part of the object in Swan's hand is this information: "Thunder Bird Headdress made and worn by Aitl yu [??] Clyokwat Chief. Vancouver Island, B.C. - James G. Swan, Port Townsend, W.T. Sep. 8 1881." Also, an old tag on the artifact identifies it as "Nootka headdress for Hokoala. Ring of red wool in place of red cedar bark." It is unclear from records if E46496 and 46497 are related objects?

FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD. AN OVOID BODY AND CYLINDRICAL HANDLE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY AND TIED TOGETHER WITH THREE PAIRS OF STRINGS ON EACH SIDE. THE LOP OR COVER IS A CARVED HUMAN MASK WITH LEAD EYES, AND A BOWL RESTING ON BACK OF HEAD."FROM CARD: "4120-1. 4120-ILLUS. IN J. SWAN, THE INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, SMITHSONIAN INST., 1869, FIG. 44, P. 77."

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN J. SWAN, INDIANS OF CAPE FLATTERY, SMITHSONIAN INST., 1869, FIG. 13, P. 27."

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".

FROM CARD: "10 CTS. ."

FROM CARD: "LONG HANDLE CARVED"