FROM CARD: "23470-76. #23472 - ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 142; P.453. #23472: ILLUS. FIG. 99, P. 72 IN A GUIDE TO WEFT TWINING BY DAVID W. FRASER. PHILADELPHIA: UNIVERSITY OF PENN. PRESS, 1989." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BASKET STRAP.--A WOVEN BAND OF RED, WHITE, AND BLACK YARN WITH A PLAITED ROPE ATTACHED TO EACH END. USED TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF HEAVILY LADEN BASKETS. THE ROPES ARE FASTENED TO THE BASKET, WHICH IS HELD UPON THE BACK BY THE WOVEN BAND, WHICH EXTENDS OVER THE FOREHEAD OF THE CARRIER. WIDTH, 2 1/4 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 23,472. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."E23472, ET14189, and E23470 are visible in a display case at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, as part of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring "American Aboriginal Handicraft Types of Weaving" presented by Department of Anthropology. USNM Neg. No. 13764. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62A, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62A_F12_003. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_401053 .

FROM CARD: "FOR MAKING MATS."

From old James G. Swan label glued onto artifact: "Indian wedge made of elk horn. Plowed up by Judge Albert Briggs Feb. 2_ [25? 29?] 1873 on his farm Port Townsend, W.T."

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

From card: "Sapling - 3 years growth. Made by an indian boy. Knot was tied in a fir sprout by Charley [sic], youngest son of Duke of York, Chief of the Clallam Indians at Port Townsend. Knot was tied three years ago. This shows growth during that period. May 31, 1882. Jas. G. Swan.""Duke of York" is a name that was applied to Chetzemoka/Cheetsamahoin/Cheech-Ma-Ham (1808 - 1888), a Klallam chief. His younger son was called Charlie Swan York.

Attributed to U.S. Exploring Expedition/Wilkes collection on the catalogue card, however Jane Walsh doubts that attribution as no Peale number has been identified for this object. Second copy of Anthropology catalogue ledger book has "Clallam Indians, Wash." penciled in as a possible identification sometime post cataloguing by an unknown person.

FROM CARD: "MATTING.---WOVEN OF RUSHES. LENGTH 17 FEET 6 INCHES. WIDTH 2 FEET 2 INCHES. CLALLAM INDIANS, WASHINGTON TER., 1876. 23,434. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."