From cards for 2588 and 2589; remarks related to 2588 and 2589 are typed on the backs of the cards for both numbers, starting on the back of card 2588 and continuing to the back of 2589: [card 2588] "Two argillite pipes from the Wilkes collection appear with the #2588 on old USNM photo #1103 (negative destroyed). The legend written in the same old hand as on other Wilkes pieces, in white ink on both specimens reads "2588, U. S. Ex. Ex., Q. Charlotte I.d," the original printed Peale catalogue label number #273 appears in the photograph on one, but it no longer remains on the specimen. The other #2588 still bears the original Peale number #276. These pieces were entered in the museum catalogue on January 8, 1867. The entry for #2588 only calls for 1 specimen. Since that time the "original #273 has been renumbered "8898." The actual "8898" also an argillite pipe, was given to the Smithsonian by Dr. Charles Deselding who collected at Puget Sound. "8898" was entered in the museum catalogue on July 27, 1869. It too appears in photo #1103 with the legend: "8898, C. Deselding, Puget Sound" in white ink and written in the same hand as the "2588" specimens." [card 2589] "Subsequently, "8898" has been figured in Niblack, USNM AR., pl. 47, fig. 364 as "2589" - and as collected by the Wilkes Expedition. That number appears on the specimen today (7/14/1967) as it apparently did in 1888. Therefore, because of photo #1103, the Deselding pipe has been changed back to "8898" - its original number; and the Wilkes specimen (original Peale #273, formerly "2588", now "8898") has been changed to "2589" - since no specimen currently exists with that number nor apparently ever did (for duplicate "2588's must represent a misnumbering error. - William C. Sturtevant and Carole N. Kaufmann July 14, 1967."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. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.

From card: "Painted and carved."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888, Pl. 16, fig. 58, p. 270. See accession records for additional data. 'Only used in dances during ceremonies. Obtained from Capt. Skedance [a.k.a. Skedans], chief of Klue [a.k.a.Tanu].'"

From card: "The dish is extremely shallow; the bowl being carved in conventionalized representation of some animal."

Listed on page 49 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

From card: "This specimen belonged to Soodatl, daughter of Ellswarsh. 'Trimmed with ermine. The carved face is a correct likeness of Soodatl at 12 years old.' - Swan. Object is illus.: Plate X, facing p. 66 in Emmons, George T. 'Portraiture among the North Pacific Coast Tribes,' American Anthropologist, 16(1), 1914. Object is identified there as 'mask, which is attached to the ceremonial head-dress, presents the face of a young girl, named Soodatl, the daughter of a Skidegate chief. The face is ornamentally inlaid with small rectangles of the much-prized blue-green haliotis shell in imitation of the old custom, which prevailed among the higher classes, of sticking on the face, with spruce-gum, such small sections of this shell.' - p. 66. Additional Info in Lab Acc. file." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 29. Exhibit label identified this as a headdress with wooden frontlet inlaid with haliotis shell; headdress is ornamented with upright sea lion whiskers, flicker feathers, and pendant white weasel skins.Per the entry on E89186 in the website http://alaska.si.edu/, "Ellswarsh" may refer to Daniel Eldjiwus, a chief and builder of the House of Contentment at Skidegate.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://www.alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=636, retrieved 5-6-2012: Headdress, Haida. During potlatch and spirit-possession ceremonies, a high-ranking Haida woman or man would wear a magnificent headdress with a carved wooden frontlet, a crown of sea lion whiskers, and a floor-length train of white ermine pelts. Before a dance the whisker crown was filled with swan or eagle down, which drifted out during the performance and fell on the spectators like snow. This late 19th century headdress is a portrait of Soodatl, the twelve-year-old daughter of Chief Daniel Eldjiwus of Skidegate. Pieces of abalone on the girl's forehead and cheeks represent the custom of sticking pieces of the shell to the face with spruce pitch.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.See Heather Pringle, "The Girl with the Shimmering Eyes," Hakai Magazine, May 27, 2015, accessed August 6, 2015, https://hakaimagazine.com/article-short/girl-shimmering-eyes/ , where Soodatl is identified as Suudaahl, who was also known later in life as Josephine Gladstone, daughter of Chief Daniel Elljuuwas.

FOOD DISH COVER NORTHERN NWC POSSIBLY HAIDA, PLAITED CRUSHED BASKET.