PROBABLY MADE OF FINELY TWISTED TWO-PLY CATTAIL (TYPHA LATIFOLIA) LEAF CORD - *SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 34, 40, 48.A similar Chinook skirt, from Lewis and Clark, is in collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, # PM 99-12-10/52990. The Peabody Museum website notes that Lewis and Clark "... described at length the unique twined cordage skirts that women in the lower Columbia River area made from cedar bark or cattail leaves, which were valuable commodities in local trade networks." Peabody Museum curator Castle McLaughlin has noted that the Catlin cordage skirts E73291, E73306 and E386547 have red paint applied to them, but this is not typical for these types of skirts. The red paint may have been applied by George Catlin?During the cataloguing of quillwork E386582B in 1948, a tag was found with it that stated "From a Lewis and Clark Chinook Skirt in Catlin Coll". Curator John C. Ewers determined that the tag did not actually belong with E386582B. It is possible that the tag might instead have been associated with Chinook skirts E73291, E73306 or E386547. This tag has not currently been located. Nor can the source of the possible ID of a Chinook skirt in the Catlin collection to Lewis and Clark be determined.

From card: "Wooden cradle; made of single piece of wood, boat shaped, with carved handle at one end; fibre strings at sides to hold child in; remnants of fibre padding inside. Same red and black paint on surface. Apparently this is the cradle illustrated in Mason's Cradles of the American Aborigines USNM Report 1887, Fig. 7, and there erroneously called No. 2574B."A similar cradle, also from George Catlin, is in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, # PM 88-51-10/50695.

Attributed on card by curator John C. Ewers as "probably Chinook or Salish." From card: "Waist band of bucksin, with buckskin tie strings; long cut fringe to band; outside of band decorated with vertical floral [fruit?] motives in 1 horizontal row (black and red paint). To inner border of waistband a second fringe of braided mtn. goat hair (?) is attached by skin thongs. Note: Dr. Erna Gunther, Washington State Museum, on visit to USNM, Oct. 13, 1948, stated this definitely of mtn. goat hair, but that she had not seen any other skirts like it from the northwest. She was not famliar with the painted motives. She believed it was probably from an interior tribe of Washington or B.C."

PROBABLY MADE OF FINELY TWISTED TWO-PLY CATTAIL (TYPHA LATIFOLIA) LEAF CORD - *SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 34, 40, 48.A similar Chinook skirt, from Lewis and Clark, is in collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, # PM 99-12-10/52990. The Peabody Museum website notes that Lewis and Clark "... described at length the unique twined cordage skirts that women in the lower Columbia River area made from cedar bark or cattail leaves, which were valuable commodities in local trade networks." Peabody Museum curator Castle McLaughlin has noted that the Catlin cordage skirts E73291, E73306 and E386547 have red paint applied to them, but this is not typical for these types of skirts. The red paint may have been applied by George Catlin?During the cataloguing of quillwork E386582B in 1948, a tag was found with it that stated "From a Lewis and Clark Chinook Skirt in Catlin Coll". Curator John C. Ewers determined that the tag did not actually belong with E386582B. It is possible that the tag might instead have been associated with Chinook skirts E73291, E73306 or E386547. This tag has not currently been located. Nor can the source of the possible ID of a Chinook skirt in the Catlin collection to Lewis and Clark be determined.

FROM CARD: "HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 4E, PG. 539." BOWL ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS WOODEN BUT HANDBOOK IDENTIFIES AS MOUNTAIN SHEEP HORN. BOWL APPEARS TO BE OF WASCO/WISHRAM MANUFACTURE. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997Pamela Cardenas, Shayleen Macy and Valerie Switzler of the Wasco delegation from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit Aug 31-Sept 4, 2015. For the Wasco, the cup or bowl is the center of the culture, it is what our stories are based off. Our creation stories are based off coming out of a spring that was shaped like a bowl. These objects are unique to our tribe because it represents us. We don't differentiate between a cup, ladle/spoon, or bowl. Shayleen noted that it is interesting how the Wasco don't make the designs anymore, the simple zigzags, triangles and chevrons. This horn bowl work hasn't been carried into the contemporary. You used to see these all around, everyone had them, but not anymore. Mountain sheep is 'kakwiq' or 'kakwik' in Kiksht. There are still mountain sheep around, they live in the mountains along the Columbia River, but that's not where our reservation is. You can see the sheep from the mountains, we can hunt them because it is ceded land. Our ceded land runs from Mount Hood to Multnomah Falls. Kiksht is the language of the Wasco tribe.

FROM CARD: "MAN'S COAT OF THE CHINOOK INDIANS (CHINOOKAN STOCK). MADE OF ELKSKIN IN IMITATION OF A FRONTIERSMAN'S GARMENT. BOUND WITH RED TAPE, BORDERED WITH OTTER SKIN, AND DECORATED FROM THE SHOULDERS AND ARMS WITH LONG, CUT FRINGE. COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON."