LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY 1 SENT TO SALEM, MA. 1886.

FROM CARD: "60145-48. 60146 SPOON IN SHAPE OF KILLER-WHALE."Listed on page 42 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".

From card: "Maul club carved wood. Design sea eagle and whale. Apparently Chinese characters carved on club."

FROM CARD: "COLLECTED BY CASEY - CAREY? 7 7/8" DIA., 3/4" DEEP."Incised and carved relief decoration, front and back, including compass-drawn motifs.Donor was the son of Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr. (1831 – 1896) who was a noted American military and civil engineer. Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr. was in command of a detachment of engineer troops in Washington Territory, from November 21, 1859, to April 1861. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1867. Thomas Casey's father, donor's grandfather, was Silas Casey (1807 – 1882), U. S. Army. Silas Casey was named deputy commander of the Ninth Infantry Regiment when the unit was reformed in 1855. When the unit arrived in Washington Territory, eight companies went east of the Cascades, while Casey took two companies with him to Fort Steilacoom from January 1856 to August 1861. Casey commanded at Camp Pickett during the "Pig War" on San Juan Island, Washington Territory from August 10 to October 18, 1859. Silas Casey went to Victoria, B.C., Canada to parley with the British at one point during the Pig War.

From card: "Carved from single cedar log by Chilkat Indians at the Seattle, Washington Fair in 1970. Includes three figures; top - raven or eagle, center - wolf, and bottom - the bear. Carving goes around three fourths of circumference and is painted in red, black and light blue. Partially hollowed out in back. Carved under the direction of Carl Heinmiller [founder of Alaska Indian Arts, Inc.]." According to the accession history: the totem pole "was commissioned by Western Airlines for the Alaska Exhibit at Seattle, Washington, 1969-1970. Carved by Chilkat Indians at Fort Chilkoot [a.k.a. Port Chilkoot, or Fort William H. Seward], Haines, Alaska, under the direction of Carl Heinmiller, owner of the Fort."Florence Sheakley, Linda Wynne, Alan Zuboff, and Shirley Kendall made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. Edwin Caskill, Leo Jacobs, Tommy Jimmy, and Charlie Jimmy carved this totem pole. Leigh Heinmiller in Haines may have photos of the totem pole at the Seattle Exposition. This totem pole features an Eagle at the top, Wolf in the middle, and a Bear at the bottom with a tana (copper shield), all from Kaagwantaan clan. Florence commented that it would take a year to carve this object and that totem poles are read from bottom to top. Alan commented that based on the adze marks three people worked on this object, instead of one or two, potentially as a teaching tool for the whole community. The totem pole is not hollowed out, suggesting it was made in a hurry.

A wooden panel pipe or ship pipe. Has original Peale # label.Provenience note, in 1841 Oregon Territory encompassed the land from Russian Alaska to Spanish California and from the Pacific to the Continental Divide. The U.S. Exploring Expedition did not go to Canada, but did reach Oregon Territory in 1841, and carried out a hydrographic survey of the Columbia River from its mouth to the Cascades, as well as doing some surveying inland.They had dealings with Hudson's Bay Company staff during that time, and it is probable that the HBC is the source of a number of the Northwest Coast artifacts collected by the expedition.FROM CARD: "WOOD INLAID WITH IVORY."