FROM CARD: "BIRDS, COPPER-BACKS."List in accession file (these objects are #s 41 and 42 on list) identifies these objects as "Two ornaments representing hummingbirds worn on dancing hat or robe of wood [?, might he mean wool, not wood?] covered with copper backs ornamentally beaten in eyes +c [word not very legible, but may be +c, which is a version of etc?] from the Prince of Wales Island Haida." Note: Prince of Wales Island is in Alaska, not B.C., as was typed on catalogue card.

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: "Includes roots and stems of spruce and cedar in all stages of preparation; shell and metal knives; horn and bone awls; dyes; fish skin; and woman's work basket."Listed on page 48 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 (Tools)".