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PUBLICATION: MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, S.I. PRESS, 1985, P. 144. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, 1987-89.FROM CARD: #2614 - COWLITZ TYPE BASKET. SEE USNM A.R. 1902, ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY, O.T. MASON, PAGE 432. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 9, PG. 511." From second card: "[Identified as] Cowlitz? *Based on comparision with other specimens. *See USNM A.R. 1902, Aboriginal American Basketry, O.T. Mason, pg. 432. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 9, pg. 511." ILLUS. FIG. 10, P. 48 AND DISCUSSED P. 47 OF "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984 AND ID THERE AS COILED OVAL BASKET, COWLITZ, IMBRICATED DESIGN IN FOUR FIELDS. LID IS MISSING. PROBABLY COLLECTED FROM COWLITZ ON A TRIP BETWEEN PUGET SOUND AND THE COLUMBIA RIVER IN JUNE 1841.Illus. Fig. 9.10, p. 208 in Brotherton, Barbara. 2008. S'abadeb = The gifts : Pacific Coast Salish arts and artists. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press. Figure caption identifies as Cowlitz coiled and imbricated basket of cedar root, bear grass, and horsetail root. "The shape and use of four design fields mark it as an early Cowlitz style."