FROM CARD: "MADE OF THIRTY-TWO SLATS OF CEDAR AND OTHER WOOD WOVEN TOGETHER BY FINE WEAVING OF FINE SINEW AND OTHER CORD. A BAND OF WEAVING OF THREE INCHES WIDTH IS CARRIED ALONG THE FRONT AT THE TOP AND THE WEAVING IS CONTINUED DOWNWARDS IN TWO PLACES, MEETING A BAND CROSSING THE BOTTOM, AND FORMING A GEOMETRICAL FIGURE. THE MIDDLE SERIES OF SLATS, EIGHT IN NUMBER, EXTENDS BELOW THE OTHER FOUR INCHES, THREE OF WHICH ARE INTACT, WHILE TWO ON EACH SIDE ARE UNITED, FORMING A SWALLOW-TAIL AND ALLOWING THE FREE BENDING OF THE THIGHS. THE FRONT AND BACK ARE DISTINCT; JOINED BY ELK SKIN CORDS AT THE SIDES. A SECTION OF SHORT SLATS, EIGHT IN NUMBER, IS PLACED IN FRONT OF THE THROAT, AND A SIMILAR ROW, SEVEN IN NUMBER, PROTECTS THE BACK OF THE NECK. THE ARMOR IS HELD IN PLACE BY A BROAD BAND OF ELK SKIN OVER THE RIGHT SHOULDER, AND FASTENED ON THE LEFT SIDE BY A LOOP AND THONG. A TOGGLE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE COLLAR IN FRONT WAS PROBABLY FOR SUSPENSION OF THE QUIVER. HEIGHT 21 1/2", WIDTH 20 INCHES. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1893; PL. 6, FIG. 1 & 2; P. 636. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 7, NORTHWEST COAST, FIG. 13 CENTER RIGHT, PG. 218."

Listed on page 43 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". Listed under incorrect number, 61069.

FROM CARD: "ROSA LIAPUNOVA, SOVIET CURATOR OF THE USSR'S STATE MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY IN LENINGRAD SUGGESTED THAT THE "PIPESTEM" CAT. 8813 MAY BE THE BODY OF THE STAND FOR "ARTIFICIAL BIRD ON ORNAMENTED STAND", CAT. 4128. THE LENINGRAD MUSEUM HAS A SIMILAR ITEM. L. EISENHART 1989."

From card: ""Chief's ceremonial eating bowl" Bowl carved to represent effigy of frog head and fish tail, also side fins".