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A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label.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.FROM CARD: "IVORY, WOOD ETC. NEG. NO. 1099 INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FIVE CATALOG NUMBERS: 2606, 2600, 2603, 2607 AND 2599."Illus. Fig. 15, p. 46 in Wright, Robin K., 1979, "Haida Argillite Ship Pipes," American Indian Art Magazine, 5(1). Identified there as a wooden ship pipe: "Pipe of wood, paint, paper, glass, whalebone, metal. Has paddle wheel with inlaid paper behind the billethead, a horse, rider and wagon, picket fence, floral and palm tree motifs."Object on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Objects of Wonder", 2017.