FROM CARD: "CARVED FROM WOOD; TEN TEETH 2 1/2 INCHES LONG; SURMOUNTED BY FIGURE OF A MAN." [back of card]: "LENT TO THE BURKE MUSEUM, 2/23/89. LOAN RETURNED OCT 10, 1989."*SEE* A TIME OF GATHERING BY ROBIN K. WRIGHT, 1991, P. 108, WHERE THIS OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS A COMB, COAST SALISH; CARVED END DEPICTS A HUMAN FIGURE WEARING A EURO-AMERICAN STYLE HAT.Has original Peale # label Peale # 253. Peale catalogue describes #s 251-253 as "Wooden combs made by the natives of Oregon."Comb carved from single piece of wood. Upper portion is a human figure wearing a hat. Head is somewhat naturally rendered, whereas body is simplified. ten teeth form lower portion of comb.

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".

Provenience note: many objects in the Chirouse collection were catalogued as Duwamish, however that really only seems to definitively apply to Catalogue No. 130965. Accession record indicates that the collection is the "handiwork of the Snohomish, Swinomish, Lummi, Muckleshoot and Etakmur Indians on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington Territory".

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".

BELT OR TUMP LINE MADE OF BOTH PROTEIN AND CELLULOSE FIBER. Catalogue number most likely either E23473 or E23476, in the James G. Swan collection. - F. Pickering 8-1-2006Illus. Fig. 43, p. 102, in Tepper, Leslie Heymann, Janice George, and Willard Joseph. 2017. Salish Blankets: robes of protection and transformation, symbols of wealth.E23472, ET14189, and E23470 are visible in a display case at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, as part of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum exhibits in the United States Government Building, featuring "American Aboriginal Handicraft Types of Weaving" presented by Department of Anthropology. USNM Neg. No. 13764. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62A, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62A_F12_003. https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_401053 .

[E2123-0 and E2123-1] TWO NARROW WOVEN BELTS WHICH ARE SEWN AT EITHER END. BOTH WOVEN IN A ZIGZAG PATTERN OF BLUE, RED, YELLOW, LIGHT BLUE-GREEN AND NATURAL COLORS. PUBLICATION: S.I. ANNUAL REPORT, 1928, PL. 13, P. 641. ONE BELT [E2123-1] WAS FORMERLY ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE NORTH AMERICAN HALL (Hall 9), NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1989. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.FROM CARD: "SMALL & NARROW. WOVEN OF VARIOUS COLORED WOOLS IN ZIGZAG PATTERN."