LEDGER, CATALOG CARD SAY 1/9 SENT TO LEIDEN, HOLLAND. 1899. SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/9 SENT TO AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1885.See Cat. 116 p. 1194 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is on a halibut hook, Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.225, which their records identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E73741.

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1/2 SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1887.

List in accession file identifies neither a culture nor a locality for this object. Anthropology catalogue ledger book appears to list a locality of Sitka (perhaps purchased here?) and a culture of Makah for E20896 - 8.

From card: "Round baskets, tapering slightly inward toward flat base of plain plaited weave in flat cedar-bark strips, while sides are in wrapped twining on very thin strips. One [E395520-0] has design in purple of whales and men in boat, while other [E395520-1] is just green and red horizontal bands. One slightly damaged."

From card: "Made of yellow cedar"

CEDAR BARK BLANKET WITH SEA OTTER FUR TRIM ON UPPER BORDER. THE WEFT IS DOUBLE, 2 SINGLE-PLAIN TWINE. THE WEFT IS A WHITE CORD, THE SINGLE-PAIR WRAPPED TWINE FORMS A 3 CM. BAND. THIS MAY HAVE BEEN RECATALOGUED CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IT IS WITHIN A 14,000 SERIES. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTROY, 1985-86. PEALE # 316. MAY FORMERLY HAVE BEEN CATALOGUE NO. 2556.Peale catalogue entry under # 316 lists 315-318 as "Dresses worn by the women of the Classet tribe of natives, Northwest Coast of America, they are made of bark."

FROM CARD: "MAPLE? MADE BY MAKAH INDIANS. *SINGLE PIECE OF WOOD, HOLLOWED OUT, OVAL, MAN'S FACE ON ONE END, ALSO ARMS; FISH HEAD ON OTHER END. ON ONE SIDE OF THE RIM A SECTION HAS BEEN CHEWED OUT."Inscription on bottom of object: "Dish for holding food; Makah Indians; Neeah Bay W. T.; Jan 1864; J G Swann."