FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "RAG CARPET.---WOVEN BY CLALLAM ... [WOMEN] IN NATIVE FRAME AND WITH NATIVE APPARATUS. CLALLAM INDIANS (SALISHAN STOCK), WASHINGTON. 23,429. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN. THIS SPECIMEN IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE SURVIVAL OF ANCIENT ABORIGINAL STITCH AND TECHNIQUE ON MATERIALS USED BY THE WHITE MAN. THE WORK IS DONE IN "TWINED WEAVING" A PROCESS UNKNOWN AMONG CIVILIZED [sic] PEOPLES."

FROM CARD: "ASSIGNED TO DIV. OF PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY DEC. 4, 1900. LENT TO MR. THOMAS WILSON. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION JANUARY 28, 1897."Among the information written on the artifact itself is "W.T.", i.e. Washington Territory.

FROM CARD: "OF SPIREA ARUNCUS. TROCADERO JULY 85."See Cat. 102 p. 190 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.260, one mat needle, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E13108.

Note that 23518 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 60 of USNM Bulletin No. 18.

FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; P1. 23, FIG. 93; P. 278."

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: "FISH SPEAR OR GIG. ROUGH TIP, MADE OF TWO PIECES OF BONE, FASTENED TOGETHER BY SINEW AND PITCH, FITTED OVER THE ENDS OF ROUGH WOODEN SHANKS OF UN-EQUAL LENGTH, WHICH ARE SECURED TO A STOUT STAFF BY A SERVING MADE OF CEDAR ROOTS. THE LINE, FASTENED TO THE TIPS, IS OF TWISTED RAWHIDE OR SINEW. MADE BY CLALLAM INDIANS. LENGTH, 53 INCHES. WASHINGTON TERRITORY, 1876. 23,522. JAMES G. SWAN."