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."Long pipe with three houses/buildings (including a blockhouse?), with 2 stylized palm-like trees between the houses; has a rooster on a leafy branch with a red berry at the distal end. Has original Peale # label.

From card: "Bear, raven, and beaver motifs."

From card: "Beaver, raven, (killer-scana), and sea parrot motifs. Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; pl. 47, fig. 262; p. 322. Also illus. in Barbeau, 1957, fig. 119, p. 107, but misidentified as #73,117." Attributed by Barbeau to carver Thomas Moody. Barbeau identifies motifs as: at the top Eagle or Thunderbird; the figure next is the Whale; the bird below, the Raven; and the Beaver with three skyils at the base.

FROM CARD: "WOMAN'S FACE; PAINTED; LIP PLUG [i.e. labret, and nose ring]. LOANED TO BUENOS AIRES, 1954 - RETURNED 1955. LOANED TO THE S.I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "CEREMONIAL MASK.---MADE OF WOOD, ORNAMENTED WITH WHITE, RED, AND BLUE PAINT. A BRASS RING PIERCES THE SEPTUM OF THE NOSE. LENGTH, 9 INCHES; WIDTH, 6 1/4 INCHES. TLINGIT INDIANS (KOLUSCHAN STOCK), ALASKA. 21,572." Mask was originally catalogued as "Koloshian", but identification was later changed to Haida at an unknown time by an unknown person.Mask was originally catalogued as "Koloshian", but identification was later changed to Haida at an unknown time by an unknown person. “Carved wooden masks. These of women represent the face of an Alaska married woman. The lower lip pierced with large piece of ivory. The married women are recognized by this feature (and ring in nose.)” And, mask “is a facsimile of the face of the ordinary Alaska Indian woman (the lower lip pierced) all married woman observe this custom but a shirt silver needle or pin would better represent prevailing custom, excepting in women somewhat advanced in years.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.

From card: "Illus. in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 60; Pl. 24, no. 11, p. 48."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on harpoon head http://www.alaska.si.edu/media.asp?enlarge=758, retrieved 5-6-2012: Harpoon head, Haida. Before firearms Haida men hunted seals using harpoons and clubs. Their main weapon was a light cedar harpoon about ten feet long, tipped with a detachable barbed point made of bone or iron. A plaited seaweed cord linked the point to the shaft so that a harpooned seal had to pull it behind as it tried to escape. Hunters' songs honored the seals they had taken.This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. Only Harpoon head included on loan. Sheath not included on loan.

NWC PLAITED BASKET NORTHERN NWC FOOD DISH COVER POSSIBLY HAIDA.

From card: "Colored bands."Original label attached to artifact says "Eliza Billy [?, last name not very legible; presumably the maker or original owner?], Jackson, Alaska." Jackson is an alternate name for Howkan, Alaska, which is a Haida town.

From card: "Tlingit? or Haida? Southeastern Alaska? Canada, B.C.? Wood, spruce root. One hook is illus. in Fig. 184, p. 154 of Crossroads of Continents by William Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell, Smithsonian Press, 1988. One hook in storage is tagged: "Niblack p. 291". This presumably refers to "The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Northern British Columbia" by Ensign Albert P. Niblack in USNM Annual Report for 1888, though object does not seem to be illustrated there."I suspect these hooks may be either Cat. # E89204 or 89205 (or both), as these fishing lines are missing their hooks and the T numbered hooks resemble the ledger drawing of hook # 89204. If this is the case then they are Haida, collected by James G. Swan in 1883. - F. Pickering 11-30-1988