From card: "Rank ornament of chief. Each section shows the number of feasts he has given." From old original tag with artifact: "Tadn skillik worn by chiefs to indicate rank. This was on top of an old wooden helmet too much broken to be of use. These Tadn skilliks are highly prized when new. This is the only specimen offered. James G. Swan, Massett, B.C., July 9, 1883." AS OF 2006, CAT. #88738 CONSISTS OF ONE COLUMN OF 3 WOODEN AND 4 WOVEN SPRUCE-ROOT? CYLINDRICAL RINGS, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS "POTLATCH RINGS," USUALLY USED ON TOPS OF HATS. -F. PICKERING 5-10-2006

FROM CARD: "COLLECTED BY CASEY - CAREY? 7 7/8" DIA., 3/4" DEEP."Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including compass-drawn motifs.Donor was the son of Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr. (1831 – 1896) who was a noted American military and civil engineer. Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr. was in command of a detachment of engineer troops in Washington Territory, from November 21, 1859, to April 1861. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1867. Thomas Casey's father, donor's grandfather, was Silas Casey (1807 – 1882), U. S. Army. Silas Casey was named deputy commander of the Ninth Infantry Regiment when the unit was reformed in 1855. When the unit arrived in Washington Territory, eight companies went east of the Cascades, while Casey took two companies with him to Fort Steilacoom from January 1856 to August 1861. Casey commanded at Camp Pickett during the "Pig War" on San Juan Island, Washington Territory from August 10 to October 18, 1859. Silas Casey went to Victoria, B.C., Canada to parley with the British at one point during the Pig War.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label.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.FROM CARD: "WOOD INLAID WITH IVORY."

Ledger book says: Commodore E. [Edmund] P. [Pendleton] Kennedy U.S.N. in 1832, U.S.S. Peacock.A partial label attached to paddle # 1 of 2 says: "Pair of Indian Paddles, from Behrin Strait [sic], Presented by Com: E. P. Kennedy, U.S.N. on return to Norfolk, Va [?] the Sloop of War Peacoc[k] from a cruise in the N? 1832 ... substa? ..."