FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NM REPORT 1884, PL. VI, FIGS. 9, 10, P. 306; USNM AR 1888, FIG. 185-6, AND PL. 36, FIG. 180, P. 314; REPORT, 1902, FIG. 155; P. 426. TAG ON ARTIFACT SAYS SALISH, FRASER RIVER."See USNM AR for 1902, p. 426, where basket is identified as "procured from Sitka [sic], Alaska Indians by J.J. McLean, to which place it had doubtless drifted in trade from the Fraser River (British Columbia, Canada) Region." While the basket was actually catalogued as from "Hoonia" (i.e. Hoonah), not Sitka, the identification of the basket as Fraser River Salish type seems correct and it has been stored with that collection.

FROM CARD: "OF WOOD. SHAPED AND ORNAMENTALLY CARVED TO REPRESENT A SEA LION. CARRIED IN HUNTING AND FISHING CANOE TO KILL SEALS OR LARGE FISH BEFORE HAULING THEM INTO THE CANOE. LENT TO THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA, MAY 18, 1964." Loan returned 2012.

From card: Wood, carved handle. Formerly part of the John G. Brady collection [E. H. Harriman donation, Accession # 54171 for year 1912], cat. no. 274,225." Note: Harriman Accession was collected by John Green Brady, 1878 - 1909.

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)".