FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "EAR-RINGS (2).---MADE OF SILVER, MUCH AFTER MODERN PATTERN; BELL-SHAPED PENDANTS; SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP. SITKA INDIANS. EXTREME LENGTH, 1 5/8 INS. LENGTH OF PENDANT, 1 1/16 INS. ALASKA, 1875. 19,548. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

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: "IVORY AND WOOD."