From card: "Round foundation, flat coil bottom bulging side body; leather thongs about top. "Fillers on side of basket" illus. in BAE 41st AR, fig. 63, p. 276. Illus. in BAE 41st AR, Pl. 32a, p. 484. In BAE 41st AR Pl. 32a, Haeberlin et al. attribute this basket to the Thompson Indians. - J. R. (4/85)."Note re provenience: Emmons in accession file identifies the basket as collected (probably purchased) in Victoria, B.C. and identifies it as Klikitat. Anthropology catalogue ledger book and catalogue card identify as Cowlitz or Skokomish, but in 1985 someone with initials "J.R." notes on the card that the basket was published as Thompson Indian in the BAE 41st Annual Report.

From card: "Twined weave with wrapped overlay." Identified as Skokomish type by Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007.

From card: "Relics [sic] of Napoleon, Skokomish Chief." Note that accession record entry on these artifacts identifies Napoleon as Snohomish.Catalogue card records these as called "Flanks", however this word looks more like "Tlanks" in Anthropology Catalogue ledger book. 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".

Lynn Foster is an enrolled member of the Skokomish Tribe. Her great aunt, Louisa Pulsifer, was a strong influence on her, along with Burt Wilbur and Dennis Allen. She is the daughter of Andy and Ruth Wilbur. They have been instrumental in her interest, knowledge and skills of their ancient traditions. Lynn's focus and commitment is to maintain and keep alive all ancient traditional skills, styles, and designs while weaving with only roots, barks, grasses, and ferns.

The grass is yellow and purple.