FROM CARD: "THESE ARTICLES WERE RETURNED FROM THE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION WITHOUT MARKS. 1 ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 60; P1. 25, NO. 3; P48. *STORED AS MAKAH (NOOTKA) NW COAST BECAUSE OF RESEMBLANCE TO USNM #4122 (MAKAH-J.G.SWAN)."

Listed on page 41 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

FROM CARD: "TROCADERO 7-85. EXCHANGE-MISS. GRACE NICHOLSON 46 N. LOS ROBLES AVENUE, PASADENA, CALIF. JUNE 20, 1904."Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, has identified some, but not all, of these mats as of Makah manufacture, 3-2003.Listed on page 44 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".In 2023, Paz Nunez-Regueiro, Head of the Americas collection at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac indicated they have a mat listed as old Smithsonian # 20727, Branly catalog number 71.1885.78.330. 20727 may not be the correct number. It is possible this object is actually E20728, since records indicate at least one mat from 20728 went to the Trocadero Museum in 1885.

FROM CARD: "SIMILAR TO 4,120, EXCEPT THAT THE COVER HAS A WEASEL CARVED ON IT. THE BODY IS PLAIN AND SOMEWHAT OF AN ENLOGATED EGG-SHAPE."

FROM CARD: "SEE U.S.N.M. DIST. 5-26-77 EX. PEABODY MUSEUM." Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates part of this exchanged with Trocadero Museum, France, July 1885.See Cat. 126 p. 197 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 Musee Du Quai Branly Catalog no. 71.1885.78.76, which their records incorrectly identify as formerly Smithsonian no. E25350. It is probably instead formerly E23350.