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".

From card for E23523-46: "Dec 20, 1972, Bill Holm says that these are definitely Haida."Cultural ID for paddles E23523 - 23546 is somewhat in question. They were catalogued as Clallam, Bill Holm has identified them as Haida, but James Swan in correspondence in the accession file references 24 Bella Bella paddles.

FROM CARD: "NECKRING OF HALF HAMADGA. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1895; FIG. 134; P. 488."

FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."Florence Sheakley, elder, Ruth Demmert, elder, and Linda Wynnemade the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This bag is a three-sided pouch made of soft buckskin. Each side of the pouch features the same beadwork and same seaweed pattern, but in different bead colors. Ruth commented that she had never seen a three-sided pouch like this before.

From card: "Introduced by Makah 70 years ago. [i.e. about 70 years prior to 1917.] Coarse weave; whales and canoes on side."