FROM CARD: "AN OVAL TAPERING PIECE OF PINE, DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY INTO HALVES. THE HALVES ARE EXCAVATED SIMILAR TO 20,698 AND FITTED WITH A LARGE OVAL SEED MADE OF PINE. THE MOUTH PIECE IS REDUCED IN SIZE TO BETTER FIT THE LIPS. SHALLOW GROOVES ARE MADE IN THE OUTSIDE TO KEEP THE LASHINGS ONE OF SPRUCE ROOT. THE JOINTS ARE MADE TIGHT WITH PITCH OR GUN"Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) 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. It's a single reed with hide and spruce root binding. On the end it's sap. It has a red cedar chamber, spruce root, tan hide binding and burlap sack helping it hold the reed in place. The reed itself looks like red or yellow cedar. It might be pine, but not the chamber.

FROM CARD: "SPOON.---BOWL OF SHEEP HORN, HANDLE OF GOAT HORN ORNAMENTED WITH CARVED TOTEMIC DESIGNS. THE BOWL IS SHAPED BY STEAMING THE HORN IN A WOODEN MOULD.THE HANDLE IS FASTENED TO THE BOWL WITH COPPER RIVETS. LENGTH, 8 3/4 INCHES; WIDTH OF BOWL, 2 1/2 INCHES. SITKA INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 20,749. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "20576-8. ILLUS. IN BAE 3RD AR, PL. XIII, FIG. 21, P. 171." Description of mask in the publication cited above is on p. 116: "A well-carved modern mask, collected by J.G. Swan for the National Museum at Bellabella, British Columbia, near Milbank Sound; history wanting. It is carved of Alaska cedar, rather thick and heavy. The ears, nostrils, lips, upper forehead, bands around the face and across the cheeks are colored red; the eyebrows and irides are black. The remainder of the portions dark-shaded in the figure are blue, powdered while wet with triturated mica, which adhered when the paint had hardened. The surface of the wood is bare in some of the lighter-shaded portions. The eyes are not perforated, the wearer peeping through the nostril holes. This mask was held on by cords passing through its ears and around the nasal septum. The interior is soiled with red paint, which appears to have been rubbed off the painted face of the wearer. This is also evidently a festival mask, not used in connection with, or, at least, not symbolic of, ... totemic ritual."Illus. Fig. 25, p. 36 in King, J. C. H. 1979. Portrait masks from the Northwest Coast of America. [New York]: Thames and Hudson. Identified there as: "Northern Kwakiutl human face mask. A heavily carved mask painted black, red and blue, of unknown significance. The eyes are not pierced so that the wearer would have looked through the nostrils. It was collected in the 1870s by J.G. Swan at Bella Bella, British Columbia, c. 1850-1875.Clyde Tallio (Nuxalk) and 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 mask has eye orbs the same as the classic Nuxalk style.

FROM CARD: "TROCADERO JULY 1885."From old James G. Swan tag with artifact: "8 bdls grass & rag cords. Used in mat manufacture (Clallam Indians). [Additional note on tag in another hand:] 2 of grass twine."It appears E23513 and E23514 may have been combined during cataloguing or not long after? 23513 per the ledger book was 8 bundles of grass and rag cords used in mat manufacture, etc.. 23514 was supposed to be 2 bundles of grass twine used in mat manufacture, etc.. There is currently no catalogue card for 23513, nor are there artifacts bearing that number. Also, the old James Swan tag currently with the cords # E23514 appears to describe both 23513 and 23514. Smithsonian records indicate some at least of 23514 (or 23513?) went to the Trocadero Museum in July of 1885. It is unclear if what remains in the Anthropology collections constitutes 23514, 23513 or some combination of both?See Cat. 107 p. 191 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.78, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E23514. This object appears to include at least some red fibers along with the grass.

FROM CARD: "$1.00." FROM SWAN'S HANDWRITTEN LIST IN ACCESSION RECORD: "SALAD FORK AND SPOON, SITKA ALASKA. MADE BY INDIANS TO SELL TO WHITES. NOT USED BY NATIVES." - F. PICKERING 6-25-1999

FROM CARD: "TWINED BASKET MAT. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL.36, FIG. 183; P. 314. ONE SENT TO THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM, NOV. 7, 1922. RETURNED SEPT. 26, 1989. SEE ALSO ACC. 387023." FROM CARD: "...LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990."

IN SHAPE OF BEAR CLAW. FROM CARD: "DRINKING CUP IN CARVED WOOD."