FROM CARD: "CARVED WOOD, IN TWO SECTIONS, TIED TOGETHER AT THE EDGES AND PINNED AT THE HANDLE. DESIGN, A BIRD WITH OPEN WINGS. ONE ITS BREAST A CARVED MASK. ON THE BACK IS A HUMAN FIGURE IN RELIEF WITH A FROG ON HIS BREAST. EATING HIS TONGUE. THE TAIL OF THE BIRD REPRESENTS THE HEAD AND BEAK OF A BIRD. PAINTED RED, GREEN AND BLACK. USED IN THEIR RELIGIOUS DANCES."

SKIN ROPE - NW COAST.

LID TO BASKET TLINGIT? Identified as of probable Makah manufacture by Teri Rofkar, Tlingit basket maker, 3-2003

FROM CARD: "OLD IMBRICATED BASKET, OVAL IN SHAPE; BRAIDED EDGE PIERCED FOR LEATHER LOOPS FOR CARRYING STRAP AND COMMERCE IN HANDLING. USED FOR STONE BOILING."

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".From card: "4 beaver teeth [dice]. 28 counters [Stewart Culin identifies as radial bones of birds, used as dice/game counters.] Illus. in BAE 24th AR [Stewart Culin, "Games of the North American Indians"], figs 182/183; p. 156; also in USNM Rept, 1896; fig. 69, p. 746." Culin identifies these as possibly Snohomish, but notes that it is not possible to determine the tribe exactly.