From card: "Twined. Decorative elements are introduced red and green bands."Catalogued as Makah, Washington state. However, it has an old original label attached "Alberti [Alberni??] B.C. [British Columbia] 2.00".

From card: "Adze, chisel & 3 awls. Iron blade of modern type with highly specialized handhold attached by leather strap: illus. in Proceedings, USNM vol. 60; Pl. 15, no. 10; p. 48. Adze Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 1u, pg. 2.Listed on page 48 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 (Tools)".

LEDGER AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1 OF 2 SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1888. SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY [how many?]SENT TO OBERLIN, OH, 1889. As of July 2009, 4 pieces remain in the collection.

Described p. 101 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Harpoon Head And Laniard. Head, apparently a piece of an old saw blade, covered with a coating of spruce gum. Laniard, sinews of the whale served with twine made from fibers of nettle to render it impermeable to water. Barbs, elk bone; sheath, bark. Length, 20 feet. Makah Indians, Cape Flattery, 1883. James G. Swan. Used by natives for fastening seal-skin buoys to whales."

This basket is small and almost flat-- looks like it might be a lid, but it doesn't fit any of the other baskets in this catalog number.