From card: "Ceremonial spear of Chief Neaquewuan who was a chief of the Nootkan people, from the west coast of Vancouver Island. The head of the staff represents a wolf, the knife blade is the tongue. At the other end is represented an old woman who is the spirit of the dance singing. This was carried upon occasions of ceremony."The card and the list from Emmons in the accession file call this "Nootkan", west coast of Vancouver Island. Jennifer Kramer, Curator, Pacific Northwest, UBC Museum of Anthropology, 5-24-2013, identifies it is Kwakwaka'wakw/Kwakiutl style.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Roll of native woven s[t]uff covered with windings of bark cord in two shades forming triangular figures. Pendant band of cords at the back."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=666, retrieved 3-31-2012: Neck Ring. Tsimshian celebrants danced in cedar-bark rings, imitating the dress and actions of beings who were described in the origin story of each secret society. Bark rings were hung outside on the houses where ceremonies were in progress, to warn away the uninitiated. This ring consists of several crossed layers of twisted bark cord wrapped around wool; the sash is made of twisted bark cords, each ending in a knot and tassel.

FROM CARD: "COVERED. NO. 168273,-6 1/2" HIGH. 168274, - 4 3/4" HIGH LX. AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR, 2-21-03. 168275-6 AND 168278, 3" HIGH. 168277 AND 168279, -3 1/2" HIGH. 168280, 5 1/2" HIGH. 168,281, -8" HIGH. 168,282, - 6". NO.168,276 EXCHANGED WITH THOMAS WILSON. NO. 168,279 EXCHANGED. - MS. J. G. SAYERS 4/10/1897. 110 MARYLAND AVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. SENT AS LOAN TO L. J BERGER-AMER.-COLORTYPE CO. 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.-MARCH 27, 1903. 168,272-82. NO.168278: SENT AS GIFT TO MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA. C/O DR. S. Y. JAMESON, PREST. AUG. 6, 1906. #168282 - ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1902; P1. 73; P. 548. #168277-ON EXHIBIT: HALL 11, MAY 1990."

FROM CARD: "BONE."This object is # 45 on list in accession file.

FROM CARD: "BASKET. TWINED. 3 [of 7] EXCHANGE[D] - BARON LUDWIG AMBROZY. 14 SINGERSTRAUSSAS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA. JUNE 22, 1905."Ledger says 1 [of 7] sent to Alabama Central College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

From card: "This mask represents "Nulmal" used in the fool dance. (See Boas page 477). Exhibit Hall 9, 1987. Identified in exhibit label as Noolthmalth, or Fool Dancer, Kwakiutl, collected about 1900."Ian Reid (Heiltsuk) and Karen Anderson (Nuxalk elder) 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. The mask contains possible human hair and copper inlays. The mask has a classic Nuxalk aesthetic, especially the sculpting in the mouth and eyebrows. Thought to be alder and has parts made of yellow or red cedar. The carver of the piece seems to be someone from Bella Coola, due to the stylization of the mask.