From card: "Carrying basket. A very fine old specimen purchased from Dr and Mrs A. J. Comstock, Ventura Cal. It has been in their collection for many years."

From card: "Flexible vertical cylinder, sloping slightly toward the flat base, plain twined weaving, decorated in vertical rows of concentric rectangles, and animal figure around top edge; braided rim with shallow loops is partly broken. Obtained about 1900. Reference: Mason, p. 234, fig. 15, pl. 164." Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007, the concentric rectangles in the design represent puppy pens and the animal figures with upcurved tails near the pens depict dogs.

From card: "Rushes."

From card: "Flexible, more or less cylindrical baskets, one with slight expansion toward rim; which on both of them is braided and also looped on one. In partially open wrapped twining, undecorated except for a few brown stripes of the basic cedar bark, not covered with the yellowish fiber strips of the rest."

BASKET MADE FROM CATTAIL, BEARGRASS & CEDAR BARK. THE RIM IS CONSTRUCTED OF A FALSE BRAID WITH CEDAR ROOT & BEARGRASS ADDED, WITH TWISTED BRANCH FOR LOOPS ALL AROUND,(SOME ARE MISSING). THE BASE HAS SPIRAL PLAIN TWINING WITH PARTIAL OVERLAY OF BEARGRASS TO FORM CONCENTRIC CIRCLES. THE BASKET IS DECORATED WITH ROWS OF DARK BROWN STARS AND BACKBONE DESIGNS ALTERNATING IN HORIZONTAL BANDS, FIVE IN ALL, DARK ON LIGHT. EXAMINED AND DESCRIBED BY CAROLYN MARR. ILLUS. FIG. 5 & 6, P. 47 IN "SALISH BASKETS FROM THE WILKES EXPEDITION" BY CAROLYN J. MARR, AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 9, NO. 3, 1984. IDENTIFIED ON P. 46 OF THIS PUBLICATION AS TWANA BUT " ... ATYPICAL OF TWANA WORK, RESEMBLING THE NEIGHBORING CHEHALIS AND QUINAULT, WHO ALSO USE THE SAME BORDER DESIGN, CALLED 'FLIES' OR 'STARS' .... THE MAIN DESIGN DEPICTS TWO TYPES OF FISH BACKBONE PATTERNS, VARIOUSLY IDENTIFIED AS STURGEON, HERRING AND SALMON .... THE BASE IS PLAIN TWINING WITH PARTIAL OVERLAY ..."FROM CARD: "NO. 7571: EXCHANGE. MRS. J. G. SAYERS. 110 MARYLAND AVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. 4/10/1897."