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From cards for 2588 and 2589; remarks related to 2588 and 2589 are typed on the backs of the cards for both numbers, starting on the back of card 2588 and continuing to the back of 2589: [card 2588] "Two argillite pipes from the Wilkes collection appear with the #2588 on old USNM photo #1103 (negative destroyed). The legend written in the same old hand as on other Wilkes pieces, in white ink on both specimens reads "2588, U. S. Ex. Ex., Q. Charlotte I.d," the original printed Peale catalogue label number #273 appears in the photograph on one, but it no longer remains on the specimen. The other #2588 still bears the original Peale number #276. These pieces were entered in the museum catalogue on January 8, 1867. The entry for #2588 only calls for 1 specimen. Since that time the "original #273 has been renumbered "8898." The actual "8898" also an argillite pipe, was given to the Smithsonian by Dr. Charles Deselding who collected at Puget Sound. "8898" was entered in the museum catalogue on July 27, 1869. It too appears in photo #1103 with the legend: "8898, C. Deselding, Puget Sound" in white ink and written in the same hand as the "2588" specimens." [card 2589] "Subsequently, "8898" has been figured in Niblack, USNM AR., pl. 47, fig. 364 as "2589" - and as collected by the Wilkes Expedition. That number appears on the specimen today (7/14/1967) as it apparently did in 1888. Therefore, because of photo #1103, the Deselding pipe has been changed back to "8898" - its original number; and the Wilkes specimen (original Peale #273, formerly "2588", now "8898") has been changed to "2589" - since no specimen currently exists with that number nor apparently ever did (for duplicate "2588's must represent a misnumbering error. - William C. Sturtevant and Carole N. Kaufmann July 14, 1967."Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.