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FROM CARD: "VERY FINE SPECIMEN IN YELLOW, BROWN AND NATURAL; DESIGNS IN FRONT ROWS OF DEER ON YELLOW BACKGROUND; REAR ZIGZAGS HORIZONTALLY ARRANGED ON YELLOW BANDS. TWINED WEAVING." OBJECT WAS ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS MAKAH, NEAH BAY, B.C., HOWEVER THE MAKAH OF NEAH BAY ARE IN WASHINGTON STATE.BASKET WAS ILLUS. FIG. 16, P. 51 AND DISCUSSED P. 50 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984. ID THERE AS LARGE FLAT WRAPPED TWINED BAG, MISTAKENLY CATALOGUED AS MAKAH, BUT ACTUALLY CLATSOP OR TILLAMOOK, WEAVE 14 WARPS AND 15 WEFTS PER INCH, 31.8 CM. H, 52.1 CM. DIA., 40 CM. W.. Illus. p. 252 and discussed p. 252 and p. 383 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Identified there as materials: sweet grass sedge (Scirpus americanus), bear grass, cedar bark, and sea grass. Design: on the rim is a common motif known as the hell-diver bird. The animals shown are probably elk. Illus. Fig. 9.11, p. 209 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 design: "obverse side displays three bands of deer with one narrow band of birds near the rim; the reverse shows four horizontal bands of zigzags."

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