From card: "Woven grass."Original label attached to artifact says "Lillie [presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

From card: "Worn as a hat; painted with totemic designs and carved to represent an animal. Some appendages missing. Apparently recently made."

Argillite pipe with a heel and lanceolate (tobacco leaf?) relief carved decoration on the bowl, probably based on the form of European or American commercial clay tobacco pipes. Red pigment in some of the incised lines. 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. This object has been attributed as possibly Haida, based on its being made of argillite.

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Paper labels inside dish read: "No 47 Paint dish, Haida, Skidigate $1 Sep 1883 J. G. Swan. No 47. This very fine specimen was purchased at Skidigate Queen Charlotte Island Sep 1883 for $1.00 J. G. Swan"."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=629 , retrieved 5-21-2012: Paint Dish, Haida. This stone dish from Skidegate was used for blending oil-based colors to apply to the body and face, or for mixing paints to use on hats, masks, boxes, and other work. For the latter purpose, crushed salmon eggs were added as a fixative. Charcoal, roasted tree fungus, ocher, cinnabar, and berry juices were among the common coloring materials. The bottom of the dish is carved with a Sea Bear and Killer Whale, both crests of the Raven moiety.

LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY SENT TO GEORGE HEYE, NEW YORK, 1908.

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.

Catalog card says that this was sent as an exchange to F.W. Galpin in 1902, but this is apparently incorrect, since the whistle remains in the NMNH collection.