From card: "Painted. NWC type."Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

Listed on page 50 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)".

From card: "Colored bands."Original label attached to artifact says "Eliza Billy [?, last name not very legible; presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

Original label attached to artifact says "Frank Natkong [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town. Natkong is a Haida name.

From card: "Carved. Duck-shaped."One of these objects has the remains of a glued on label on the bottom. One may speculate that the label may have been a label from the Sheldon Jackson Insitute? Such labels appear on other artifacts in this collection. See E260339 for an example of an object with an extant label of this type, the text of which says: "Sheldon Jackson Institute, An Industrial Training School for Indian Boys and Girls, Sitka, Alaska."

Basket has label glued on bottom that says "Joseph Yeltatsi [presumably maker or original owner?], Jackson [i.e. Howkan], Alaska." Identified as Haida style of manufacture by Deborah Ann Head, 6-3-2009. She also notes that Yeltatsi is a Haida last name, and Howkan is a Haida area.

This object has the remains of a glued on label on the back. It appears to have been a label from the Sheldon Jackson Insitute? See E260339 for an example of an object with an extant label of this type, the text of which says: "Sheldon Jackson Institute, An Industrial Training School for Indian Boys and Girls, Sitka, Alaska."