Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including floral and leaf motifs, compass-drawn motifs, cross-hatching.

Argillite pipe with relief carved decoration, including a face, on the bowl, probably based on the form of European or American commercial clay tobacco pipes. Red pigment in some of the incised lines.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 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 old label in James G. Swan's hand glued onto artifact: "Haida dance rattle, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC. J G Swan [of] Pt. Townsend. Dec. 1884."

From card: "Bear, raven, and beaver motifs." Illus. Pl. 305, p. 384 and described p. 410 in Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. [Ottawa]: Dept. of Resources and Development, National Parks Branch, National Museum of Canada. Identified as (from top), beaver, raven, bear, and attributed by Henry Young to John Robison (a.k.a. John Robson) of Skidegate.